Sanaa Lathan Quotes

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.

Sometimes it's harder to untrain somebody with dance experience than it is to teach somebody with a new skill.

Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.

I had to unlearn cricket to learn hockey. It is easier for someone who is not a sportsperson to pick up hockey. They just have to learn it.

Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.

I've been playing basketball my entire life, so I feel comfortable doing what is asked of me.

I was never in an acting school. But I learned everything on the job like memorising lines, all the technicalities of theatre, how to use your voice and eyes and more.

I have been passionate about dancing and acting as long as I I can remember. It was a natural progression to make it my passion, pursue it, learn more about it, and develop myself as a performer.

People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That's the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people.

The Championship is a ferocious league, physically demanding, and it simply does not allow players the luxury of cruising through.

Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

I'm terrible at basketball. I have really small hands, and I can't control the ball.

I don't know if I could lip-sync while waterskiing. I had to do that on horseback and it was a nightmare.

I always enjoy when CJ gets rolling because it's not just the fact that he's doing it for our team; it's the way it looks. Smooth. Crossovers. Crafty. Tough shots.

The battle between bat and ball is a one-on-one thing. I love that stuff, but you play it in a team.

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

You never stop learning from this game. That's the crazy thing.

My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.

Acting is a learning process. And what you are doing in your early films is essentially picking up the nuances, the tricks of your trade. And somewhere along the line, you become analytical and learn to enjoy what you are doing.

It's tough to run fast and jump off roofs when your feet are freezing off!

I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.

You never finish learning.

Dancers are trained to be disciplined to do what they are told, but I knew that time goes by, and I didn't want to make the mistakes of the others.