If you are afraid of losing something, then you are dependent on it. If you are not afraid, then you are free. Sylvie Guillem More Quotes by Sylvie Guillem More Quotes From Sylvie Guillem While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop. Sylvie Guillem stop think enjoy feet I judge myself severely. Sylvie Guillem judge myself I am not nice. That has gotten me into a lot of trouble. Sylvie Guillem i-am me nice trouble I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call it that, was to discover and learn and be excited by what I was doing. If I didn't have that, I would find it elsewhere. Sylvie Guillem doing you paris ambition There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger. Sylvie Guillem i-am me girl waiting Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up. Sylvie Guillem know achieve i-can pressure I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage. Sylvie Guillem see think you negative The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life. Sylvie Guillem my-life part childhood life The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past. Sylvie Guillem problems opera paris past There are some ballets you can do for a long time. With others, you have to know when to stop. Some are very destructive. Forsythe's choreography pushes dancers to the extreme. That's why it's best to vary. That way, you break your body a little bit in different places, but not a lot in one place. Sylvie Guillem best you time long At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me. Sylvie Guillem me always paris choices There is a false idea that I am stubborn and do only what I want, but really, I am like a sponge. Sylvie Guillem i-am like stubborn want
