I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not…

I think my gymnastic background helped a great deal with my agility when I took up football seriously.

— Marco van Basten

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

— Johnny Weir

The way that gymnasts train is really, really tough. It's brutal and hard and difficult. But at some point in my gymnastic career I…

— Doechii

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

— Shawn Johnson

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

— Blake Lively

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says,…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

— Meryl Streep

I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option.…

— Johnny Flynn

You dream to be able to have a storyline that spans hours and hours and hours but in reality, half of the people who…

— Sophie Turner

Modeling stuff is cool - obviously you get to travel and wear cool clothes, take cool pictures, meet cool people - but for me,…

— Hero Fiennes-Tiffin

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

— Noah Taylor

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

— Leighton Meester

In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you…

— Dave Bautista

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want…

— Raymond E. Feist