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Everything I do, it's a bit p...

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

I was always interested in ph...

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

When I'm alone, I work someti...

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

We lived, until I was 12 or s...

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

You open a section of 'The Ne...

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

The body cannot lie. You cann...

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

My life has been immensely en...

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

I spend at least a couple hou...

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

Be. Good. To yourself, to oth...

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

There comes a moment in a you...

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

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

You can be totally involved, ...

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

To achieve some depth in your...

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

Dance is an ephemeral, a flee...

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

Perfection is a theory. You c...

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

I want to see people dance, a...

I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

It doesn't matter how high yo...

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

You invest into the future, a...

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a M?ller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

I fell in love with New York....

I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

What do dancers think of Fred...

What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

I was never like, "collect, c...

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

Michail Baryshnikov 30 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....