Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.