Kinesthetic Memory Quotes

The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.

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.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

One person might be able to learn by reading, another will have a good audio memory, and another will make notes in different colored pens. I have a more multi sensory memory - I remember what I was doing when I learnt it and where I was.

You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.

Your body has such a memory.

I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.