Movement Training Quotes

I use a lot of balance training and functional training. Basically it's where you add an element of instability to a regular exercise. So whether it's on the physioball or the Bosu ball or just balancing on one leg, I try to incorporate an instable plane and/or movement to the exercise, so the body's doing two or more movements.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

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.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

It's important to work the core in all planes of movement, as we move in all three planes in tennis, especially into rotation and anti-rotation movements.

Out Of Your Mind Fitness is designed to train the human body to move.

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.

I'm definitely not the person to be giving anybody dance lessons.

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

I was lucky enough to get into drama school in London back in 2005, and I was there for three years, and in those three years, we did a lot of theater. A lot of classical training.

Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

Maybe it's a personality thing individual to me, but actors always benefit from body awareness.