Kristin Cavallari Quotes

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

I'm a fantastic dancer!

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It's almost the point of cinema - it's time-based and movement-based.

I'm not a signing or dancing man.

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

I think dance is my extension. There is nothing that I can imagine without dance.

I've been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps.

When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.

I can move, but I've never background-danced for anybody.

We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.