Choreographers Quotes by Sylvie Guillem

On stage, you can bring all those strong emotions that you don't have the opportunity to live. You don't want to die for love…

— Sylvie Guillem

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy…

— Sylvie Guillem

I've learned to listen to what's going on with my body.

— Sylvie Guillem

I can't have friends in every port. I have to work very hard and be very clear about what I want to do. I…

— Sylvie Guillem

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

— Sylvie Guillem

Terrorism is not a small problem.

— Sylvie Guillem

If you start dancing too young, it can be torture. The bone is too soft, and it is going everywhere.

— Sylvie Guillem

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are…

— Sylvie Guillem

If you are afraid of losing something, then you are dependent on it. If you are not afraid, then you are free.

— Sylvie Guillem

I was born with a different physical capacity to other people.

— Sylvie Guillem

'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Manon,' 'Giselle' - they are not stupid stories. They have fantastic characters. They have a big package of emotion.

— Sylvie Guillem

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

— Sylvie Guillem

One has to learn to say, 'Wait, there is a pain that is not logical. I will do a scan, and if there is…

— Sylvie Guillem

I was afraid when I came to the Royal Ballet that it would be easy to have everyone walking all over me if I…

— Sylvie Guillem

It is in my nature to be a little shy. It takes time for me to talk to people and trust them.

— Sylvie Guillem