David Belle Quotes

I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.

I really want to do something where I can show my physicality - something with a lot of action. Action would be fun. I'd really like to do that.

I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.

That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things.

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

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

I like to do the splits onstage.

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

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.

As I grew older and the dance became more competitive and more disciplined, that's when I started to realize that I'm an athlete.

I don't think anyone in the WWE really knew that I did parkour. I mean, some of the guys have seen me doing it backstage in arenas before and have always asked about it, but the office didn't know.

People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!'

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

A little backflip (backflips), but it's not part of Parkour, but i like doing this since i did gym.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.