Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.

I took tap classes growing up.

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'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

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.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

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

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

I'm a fantastic dancer!