Quotes About Expression

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

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

I love physicality. I love movement very much.

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.

In a modelling shoot you are trying to play a character, a role. There are models who are dead, who have no expression whatever. I think you need to use your physicality, your sense of humour and your emotion when you model.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

But anyone who's done a musical knows; whether you're dancing or not, physically it's the most difficult thing you can do.

I come from a family where people are physically affectionate. Hugging and kissing comes naturally to me.

I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

I've been told I'm bright. But when I act, I get incredibly stupid. I feel my intellect slowing down. I feel it happening physically. And that's not negative in acting!

Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.

As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.

I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play.

A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.