Sylvie Guillem Quotes

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy, but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use, and ballet is something I really respect.

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

I'm athletic but in a dancer way.

I started dancing almost before I could walk.

Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about how far you want to push from there.

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.