Daniela Ruah Quotes

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.

Maybe it's a personality thing individual to me, but actors always benefit from body awareness.

Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

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

What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes in front of your peers.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

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.

Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.