I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you're physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just deals with the situation at hand. You get to a point where you're exhausted at the end of the day, but I quite like that.
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
There are certain people who react well in life-threatening situations, and our military and our law enforcement and our first responders tend to be those types of folks.
Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.
I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.
Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.
It seemed his demon couldn't tell the physical difference between when he was in danger and when he was "in" Danger.
