Sylvie Guillem Quotes

I want authenticity, I don't want players to make a show. I want players to be able to be themselves on court and express all kinds of emotions.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hear them. It's not just the words, it's what is being felt.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

Speak from the balls, not from the diaphram.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

You've got to bring the emotion, and you have to understand that you can't touch other people if you're not touched. You can't move other people if you're not moved. So if you're just giving some frickin talk you've memorized over and over again, you're going to have a flat affect. If you've just got a bunch of visuals on the screen that are leading your talk, hang up your shoes and get the hell out of there.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.