The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
“People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
