“There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I a…” — Sylvie Guillem

I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.

If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.

I am only interested in being famous for my dancing. For me, the concept of the sacred monster is only about the stage - it is not about image.

I was afraid when I came to the Royal Ballet that it would be easy to have everyone walking all over me if I didn't stick up for myself.