Ricky Steamboat Quotes

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.

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.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

I tell you, I've always been quite physical about acting. I've always felt about for the shape of someone or the deportment, for better or worse. Sometimes I think I've done it disastrously, and other times, when I'm not thinking about it so much, less disastrously, but I can't seem to control it much.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

Behold, I make all things new.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

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

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

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.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

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.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.