Travis Fimmel Quotes

For me really good acting is about subtext.

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.

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

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

Acting is in everything but the words.

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.

I never liked miming.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

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

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 just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

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

Modeling is really silent acting.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

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.

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

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.