And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

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

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.

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.

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

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

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