Eartha Kitt Quotes

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

Modeling is really silent acting.

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

You have to learn to express differently. Whenever I do TV or film, I ask if I can see the shot to see, to see if it's full body or a close-up. That helps me understand how to communicate.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

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

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

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.