Catherine Mary Stewart Quotes

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good leg.

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

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.

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

I have been a professional dancer and athlete my entire life.

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

Whether it's dance or action, what's important is hand and body co-ordination. When you are a good dancer then automatically while performing action, the co-ordination is that much easier.

The hardest for me is rings because it is a lot more strength-oriented, while all the other events are about fluidity and flexibility. It's the one event that doesn't coincide with the fluidity, which is my strength.

Maybe it's innate: I have a body built to jump.

I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.

I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.

I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.