Sian Clifford Quotes

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

A play is a passion.

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

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.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

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.