Bella Thorne Quotes

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

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 found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

You have to learn to express differently. Whenever I do TV or film, I ask if I can see the shot to see, to see if it's full body or a close-up. That helps me understand how to communicate.

Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that.

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

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.

Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

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.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

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

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.

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.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

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

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

Though I am associated in the public mind with glamorous songs and dances, my appearance in 'Company' is in no way glamorous. Rather than rely on my body language, the number zooms in on my facial expressions.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.