Maisie Williams Quotes

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.

No, my dance moves are always working no matter where I am. Whether at the house or if I'm out, at the facility working out, practicing, you gotta get the dance moves right. They help out with your footwork.

I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.

Striking isn't just about kicking and punching. It's far more complex than that. It's also about timing and range.

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

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.

I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Actually I dance really well on the floor.

Good balance makes you a better dancer, musician, actor - anything.

When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.

I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.