Guillem Quotes & Sayings

I lived in a picture perfect subdivision with color coordinated houses and mailboxes, yellow labs prancing within the borders of invisible electric fences, and balding dads on riding lawn mowers. It was the type of community where housewives spent their summers tanning by the pool, half-heartedly watching their Ritalin pumped brat beat another brat with a foam noodle while rehashing Sunday's Bible study between whispers of Susie's weight gain and Dan's canoodling with the babysitter. — Maggie Young

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem. — Jerry Hall

I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around. — Steven Tyler

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

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something. — Lisa Unger

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. — Ben Okri

I first did standup at a lesbian bar. I didn't know it was a lesbian bar at the time, but the lesbians loved me. I was huge among the lesbians and am to this day. I'm thrilled with the lesbian support. — Seth Rogen

The dead can read tears. — Louis De Bernieres

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

In the end, we always regret the life we failed to live. — Debasish Mridha

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. — Sylvie Guillem

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem

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