Mask Work Quotes

I went to school in the 1970s, and there was a lot of physical theater in those days.

Going on to train with Lecoq in Paris meant I discovered European theatre at a formative moment growing up.

When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, 'Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.' It was really easy to connect to.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.