Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

I was very interested in theatre, so my first love of fashion comes from costume, and I think that's pretty clear within my work and the level of theatricality.

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.