Vincent Cassel Quotes

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

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

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Modeling is really silent acting.

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

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

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 love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

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

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

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.

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.

All theater is dance.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

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

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

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

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.

I never liked miming.