Arizona Muse Quotes

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'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

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

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

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.

I never liked miming.

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

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.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

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.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

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.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

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

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

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.