Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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 Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.
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Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.
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I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.
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I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.
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The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.
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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 Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
