Acrobatics Quotes

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport. It's the ideal art form, in a certain way, if you want to be accessible.

I could do a standing back flip at 13.

Figure skating, especially the longer performances, are such a feat. It requires so much stamina and is so beautiful.

Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

I can walk on my hands.

I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that... that is so me.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

I'm always trying to show versatility. I'm juggling, and I'm flipping fire, and I'm chewing gum and rhyming at the same time... on a unicycle, while playing the drums.

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.