Doug Jones Quotes

When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

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

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

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

Modeling is really silent acting.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives.

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.

It is a treat to do scenes where you silently enact.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

I will do plays as long as they're interested in having me do them. It's the biggest opportunity to learn the most about how to act. Something I discover every time I'm doing one is how little I know about acting - how important the art of listening is, and how important it is to listen with your entire body. You can tell so much of a story with stillness, and a lot of that can be from really actively listening to your scene partner.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.