Paul Auster Quotes

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

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.

Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'

'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an actor - and that felt amazing.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

Each body has its art.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

(I measure time by how a body sways.)

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Many times I feel different like a different person.

Your body language shapes who you are

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me." Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure." People are strange when you're a stranger.

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.