Guillem Quotes

#1. People seemed to me to fill life with shadows that should not be there.

Susan Cooper

#2. I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

Sylvie Guillem

#3. We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us

Edmund Burke

#4. No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

Sylvie Guillem

#5. Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

Miles Davis

#6. An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

Ron Paul

#7. Act the part and you will become the part.

William James

#8. When President Ronald Reagan asked me a stupid question once, I called him an idiot in public! I thought I was going to be arrested, but he laughed and appreciated me.

Bikram Choudhury

#9. I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you.

Auliq Ice

#10. Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

Sylvie Guillem

#11. I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

Gabriel Byrne

#12. My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Jerry Hall

#13. She acknowledged each person's nearness to the dead and helped the group in its struggle for order-who grieved most, whose pain was most real-because in life there is always hierarchy, and it is frankly not profitable to remain modest and anonymous, not even at a funeral.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#14. My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.

Sylvie Guillem

#15. Don't ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,
And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,
And why the sailing birds are all Romantics.

Robert Bly

#16. I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

Raymond Chandler

#17. When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

Sylvie Guillem

#18. Truth is our first and greatest weapon against spiritual abuse.

Suzanne Eller

#19. Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

Sylvie Guillem