Cilla Black Quotes

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

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.

Modeling is really silent acting.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.

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.

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

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

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and 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.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer - how they make you feel a certain way - how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people.