Elizabeth Berkley Quotes

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

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.

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

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.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

I've always danced. I've always been around it.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

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.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

When people give me the choice to either sing or dance, I'd rather dance than sing.

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

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

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

You have to work with your body when you dance; you can't shy away from your physicality. For me, it's really linked to an incandescent way of accepting yourself and projecting. The dancing was at the core from the beginning.

I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I remember watching ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing when I was very little. But I felt no connection with it whatsoever: it was just like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Even if I hadn't won 'Drag Race,' even if I'd never been on, I'd still be working my tail off, creating live shows, magazines, videos, anything I possibly could!

I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something.

I am a trained classical dancer.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

Wrestling was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Dance was something that came to me before I could even walk or talk.

'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an actor - and that felt amazing.