Erin Morgenstern Quotes

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

I like to do the splits onstage.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.

I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

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.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

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 can cartwheel!

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!

There's a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone's face, in terms of flexibility, it's all kind of the same thing.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.