Quotes from Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

Working is living to me.