Astrid Berges-Frisbey 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.

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

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.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

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.

Modeling is really silent acting.

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

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.

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.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

For me, the costume is 50% of everything. It informs posture, it informs flexibility, it informs the way you walk, it informs what the character is capable of doing, at any time.

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

I'm a very physical actor.

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

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Hands have their own language.