Charles Bronson 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.

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

I use my hands a lot while acting.

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.

Modeling is really silent acting.

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

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 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.

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've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

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

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.

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.