Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

Sometimes a certain project will have a smell... It will have a little stench about it. That is a warning signal. You know it's going to be a nightmare. You know they are not going to like it, and it's not worth it.

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

I wouldn't want to get involved with a game that's a stinker - I can smell one of those a mile away.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until Dan Quayle was elected Vice President of the United States. She said, if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.