34 Quotes by Margot Fonteyn

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

I’ve found the perfect partner.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.