Sharni Vinson famous quotes

I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.
-- Sharni Vinson

#Growing Up #Mean #Dancing

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
-- Sharni Vinson

#Growing Up #Lines #Able

I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be.
-- Sharni Vinson

#People #Trying #Auditions

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.
-- Sharni Vinson

#Art #Fighting #Thinking

Im just the highest energy person I know, and its really weird.
-- Sharni Vinson

#Energy #Really Weird #Persons

Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.
-- Sharni Vinson

#Sports #Water #Skiing

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.
-- Sharni Vinson

#Horse #Athlete #Names

I love the whole physical thing in films. It keeps me on my toes, it keeps me awake, it keeps me alive. If I'm going to be shooting a movie from 7pm to 7am six nights a week, I best be as physical as possible because then I'll never get tired. Otherwise you sit down, it sounds really weird, but that's the part that wears you out.
-- Sharni Vinson

#Tired #Night #Sound

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.