Ashley Greene Quotes

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a LOT of muscle in high school. When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.

It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.

I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.

I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.

I grew up as a swimmer. And my brother was a football player and I played football.

I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.

For 'Baahubali,' I gained eight or nine kilos for the warrior look. But for 'Saaho,' I didn't need look like that.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'

You can change your body shape by permitting yourself to exercise and eat a healthy diet and so on - and we've heard miraculous stories of people who have lost hundreds of pounds, and they look like a completely different person - but that's not the norm for the average person, and a lot of times, people don't get that way in a healthy way.

I do a healthy blend of mixed martial arts, dancing, functional training, and swimming. These exercises give me ample strength, endurance, flexibility, and stamina.

I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.

I stay healthy - I mean, I've got a sports background and an athletic background. I was in competitive sports since the age of five. I was a personal trainer before I was an actor and a personal trainer for the first few years while I was acting and getting my thesis.

I did wrestling in high school; that helped, as far as technique goes.

Like most women, my weight goes up and down.

I quite like thai boxing. But then I'm not surprised because I did taekwondo and karate and judo and all of that when I was a kid, and then just stopped when I got a bit older.

When I joined films, I was a bit plump but then I lost a lot of weight.

I haven't been an athlete in school or college, though I have played basketball and football.

I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.

I work out four hours a day - I do a lot of swimming, dancing, and gymming.

When I was pregnant with my second baby, I almost gained 50 pounds. I enjoyed my pregnancy, but then I had to lose the weight for work.

People need to understand that I came this far being chubby and all that. Imagine how far I could go actually being in good shape and looking good.