When you are young, you can do anything, everything, and nothing at the same time. You don’t have that kind of judgment; you just eat… like teenagers that need to feed. After a while, you know exactly what you are looking for, that sense of analysis comes to you when you start to use your brain. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
Animals feel pain and love and joy, just as humans. But in the industrialised meat, dairy, and egg industries, animals are denied everything that’s natural and important to them. Some of them don’t even feel the fresh air. They don’t see the light. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
Dancers are trained to be disciplined to do what they are told, but I knew that time goes by, and I didn’t want to make the mistakes of the others. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
I have a strong sense of injustice and not admitting things just because that is the way someone says it should be. I need to understand. I need to agree. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
You don’t start by saying, ‘Well, am I better than her?’ Because that goes nowhere. Instead, all your work, your passion, your will has to go into what you do. And then if there is a result, if people like you, if you are a bit different, then fine. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
At school, either gymnastics or dance, it was the same. It gave me pleasure to move. And then, when I worked to achieve something new and out of the ordinary, it made me feel good. I felt I had surpassed myself. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that’s what the stage is incredible for because it makes you live other lives. It makes you experience other emotions. It makes you feel more beautiful or more alone or more angry. It makes you feel much more, more, more. Sylvie Guillem Read Quote
