Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.

I'm a human being just like everybody else.

I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

If there is a long line, join it.

People see footballers as different beings, as if we're untouchable, as if nothing ever happens to us, but we're people. Of course we're privileged, but in the tangibles, we're the same.

I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all the time - I might get out of that ticket. Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.

I don't think I've ever been starstruck because they're just, you know... everybody's a person; we all come and go the same way.

When I'm in the car, if you didn't know my story and just saw me driving, you wouldn't know the difference between me and any of the other drivers. I'm just out there competing.

I order food like a normal human being. If I'm out to lunch, I'm going to order three courses like everybody else. I'm not going to feel like some kind of freak.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down.” I sighed. “You’re kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed.” “NASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket.” “Chicken.

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child.

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.