Daisy Shah Quotes

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

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

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

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing action movies. It's all about movement, dance - even if you're hitting someone in the face. You've got to sell it all with great passion. There's a narrative to the body. It's exactly the same as dance.

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.

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.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

I adore dancing.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.

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

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Modeling is really silent acting.