Evelyne Brochu Quotes

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 body never lies.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.

You have to work with your body when you dance; you can't shy away from your physicality. For me, it's really linked to an incandescent way of accepting yourself and projecting. The dancing was at the core from the beginning.

'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an actor - and that felt amazing.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

I'm a very physical actor. I use everything - toes, teeth, ears, everything. I don't simply mean physical in the sense of movement and vigour. I find myself remembering the shape of a scene by how I'm standing, what I'm doing.

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.

When my physicality is involved, it's kind of my comfort zone, so I find it much easier to access emotions.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.

I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.