Aimee Bender Quotes

I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.

My first impression of Jane Fonda was she is a queen. She is royalty. She walks into the room - any room - and has this presence about her that demands respect.

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

I'm not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: 'I'm the Guv here.' But maybe I give off the aura that I'm the kind of person who can be a big player.

I believe in my strengths - in my power, my speed and technique.

I believe, just in the ring, I'm explosive.

Ballet dancers really know how to enter a room.

I got speed and power. I got two things. And I've all the other aspects of boxing.

Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'

I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.

I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.

I'm still surprised when people tell me I look like a queen.

I back my power, and I back my chin, and I back my speed.

When Haye runs into my right hand, he'll know.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

You're intoxicated by my very presence.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been.

Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world

A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.