Zoe Bell Quotes

'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.

Dancing is a part of my life where when I don't dance I feel like there's something missing because I'm such a physical person who loves to express myself through dance, but I love to act. I love to sing. I love to entertain so if I'm passionate about a certain project, I wanna do it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I am more expressive when I dance.

I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion.

When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.

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, to me, is an expression of who we are.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

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

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

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.

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 try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that's attached to it.