Morgan Freeman Quotes

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

I'm not a signing or dancing man.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

I think dancing is contributed hugely to how I am as an actor, just a level of comfort in my body and in movement. Things can become strangely physically technical when you're acting, and often something that just feels so unnatural is actually what you need to do in a certain scene.

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

One is born to be a great dancer.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform.

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.