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Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 27, 1948

Topics

Time I Am Know Kind Right Stage

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley

Someone Poverty You Powerful Know

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Success Myself Mind Kind Office Box

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

Melanie Laurent

Beautiful Me Pressure American Wrong

Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

Life Family Passion Great Mountain

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

Character Relationship Think You Say

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.

Love New York Energy New Going Just

I think I'm still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.

Think Wolf Will Always Still Lone

I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.

Johnny Van Zant

Think Timeless Just Songs I Think

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

Research Think Career Jail Hand

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Douglas MacArthur

Great I Am Security Nation Within

I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

Life Think You Know Kind Human

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Past People Play Try Generations

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