Lotte Verbeek Quotes

I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.

I got into circuses and put on circuses in the backyard. My dad had horses and he'd bring them and we'd do horse tricks. I was 6 or 7 years old putting on circuses for the family or whoever in the backyard.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.

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.

Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.

Nik Wallenda and his family are legendary.

I always knew from books and shows that the lives of circus artists are not easy, but spending time and learning from them made me realise the amount of effort they put in and how they constantly jostle between life and death.

I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills.

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

I'm quite happy to be thrown around and hopefully my leg will stay on.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire.

I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.