Karl Pilkington Quotes

The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions.

The belly carries the legs, and not the legs the belly.

There are 800 some muscles, 200 some bones. Your body works in three planes of motion: arms, legs - pentadactyl limbs. That's what we're working with.

When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.

All horses are different - sometimes they have a long neck - so you don't ride the same way on every horse. It depends on their body, and your body, but the object is to get down low so you're aerodynamic, so you call pull from the horse through the head. The best jockeys do that really well, and know how much to push.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

I think yoga has given me better posture. People don't realise how strong it makes you. You have to use your body weight to hold yourself. As you get older, you're supposed to lift weights, but I find that kind of boring. Yoga is lifting my own body.

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance.

Yoga stretches out your body and releases lactic acid. I do it four times a week, and my skin feels fantastic afterwards. When I'm doing a film, I do it every day - I keep a yoga mat in my trailer. Sometimes I do it in front of the TV. The stretching makes me feel so good. It gets my heart going and helps me breathe deeply.

There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down... Of the three poses, the reclining figure gives the most freedom, compositionally and spatially.

Cut your arms and legs off, and you're left with a trunk, which you need to be as strong as possible. It's easier to push over someone who is tall and skinny than someone short and stocky. That's why we work everything from the calves to the neck.

Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.

Pilates works all the small muscles in your body and there's so much core that comes with it - and core is so important for a quarterback.

The general framework of the body is built up mainly of a series of bones, supplemented, however, in certain regions by pieces of cartilage; the bony part of the framework constitutes the skeleton.

A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.