Zoe Bell Quotes

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.

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 really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.

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

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

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.

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.

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.

One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

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

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.

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.

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.

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