Mikhail Baryshnikov

"Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

"Dancers are made, not born."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

"There comes a moment in a young artist’s life when he know she has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

"The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov