Robert Wilson Quotes

I think overall body awareness and knowing exactly where I need to be makes a big difference. Knowing how much weight to put on each foot or where I need to put my hands are things I'm very good at. Obviously with the wrestling background those are things that come naturally.

When you get your shoes for the character, no matter what you had planned, as far as how you're gonna move, all of a sudden, you get a certain kind of feedback, in how you connect to the earth and you have to incorporate that.

Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.

I have excellent balance. That's a learned behavior.

How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.

I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.

Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.

I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I'm a little more sedentary.

I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play.

What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.

Pilates works all the small muscles in your body and there's so much core that comes with it - and core is so important for a quarterback.

When you're using your upper body to live, you get to know how to move every muscle.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.