Lotte Verbeek Quotes

I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.

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 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.

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

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

I'm a really good juggler.

I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it all. I've been shot out of cannons. I know what the people want. I'm out there with the people.

I thought I wanted to be a clown, because what would be better than making people laugh?

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.