Daisy Shah Quotes

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

Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.

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

Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about how far you want to push from there.

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

I tap dance.

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I took tap classes growing up.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

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

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

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

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

I am not a natural dancer.

I would love to be able to tap dance.

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

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.