Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.

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

I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

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

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

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

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

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

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

Gymnastics is so complex.

I do tumbling and flips; there's a gym I go to for that.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.

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.