Timothy Leary Quotes

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

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

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

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'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

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

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.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

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.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

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.

I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play.

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

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

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

When you get your shoes for the character, no matter what you had planned, as far as how you're gonna move, all of a sudden, you get a certain kind of feedback, in how you connect to the earth and you have to incorporate that.

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.

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

I think because I am a physical person, and because my way of expressing and performing and storytelling or explaining has always been with my body, if I can combine the two I find it really liberating.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!