Quotes about Physicality

Physicality is the basis of performance. Votes: 3

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it. Votes: 3

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts. Votes: 3

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business. Votes: 3

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence. Votes: 3

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss. Votes: 3

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. Votes: 3

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. Votes: 3

When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business. Votes: 3

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. Votes: 2

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life. Votes: 2

Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things. Votes: 2

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way. Votes: 2

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. Votes: 2

I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis. Votes: 2

I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two. Votes: 2

Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay. Votes: 2

I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature. Votes: 2

When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound. Votes: 2

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence. Votes: 2

Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes. Votes: 2

Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality belonged to different realms of reality that didn't interact. On a positive side, it got the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals and they quit burning them at the stake for disagreeing with the Church. Votes: 2

I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character -- do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun? Votes: 2

There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last. Votes: 2

The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided the subject of mind and consciousness, leaving it to the realm of religion. Only with the founding of quantum science in the early part of the 20th century have we realized that the Cartesian Duality is wrong, that body, mind, physicality do interact and they're interrelated. Votes: 2

I love physicality. I love movement very much. Votes: 1

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. Votes: 1

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor. Votes: 1

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me. Votes: 1

I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him. Votes: 1

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way. Votes: 1

The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be. Votes: 1

I think it's important to see where compliments are coming from - if they're compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they're about your physicality or your personality. Votes: 1

I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out. Votes: 1

I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon. Votes: 1

I miss the physicality of drumming. There's immediateness about it that I'm always striving for in my acting. Maybe I'm in the wrong profession. I certainly wish I could spend more time pursuing music. It feels like a part of me I'm neglecting. Votes: 1

There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved. Votes: 1

With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect. Votes: 1

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical. Votes: 1

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters. Votes: 1

I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life. Votes: 1

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.' Votes: 1

I have had a very physical acting career, but on 'Newsroom,' it's not about physicality, but it's about presence. I get to just be. Strong, sensitive, quiet strength can be much more intimidating than the screaming loud guy, and I'm so glad to get to show this side of me, which, to be honest, is a lot like who I really am. Votes: 1

I love the physicality of books. Votes: 0

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains. Votes: 0

Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics! Votes: 0

I love playing characters that are strong, when there's physicality involved. Votes: 0

Arousal begins within the mind, then seeps out where fantasy propels physicality. Votes: 0

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch. Votes: 0

I like the physicality in doing the different physical motions, being a beast. Votes: 0

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace. Votes: 0

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us. Votes: 0

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality. Votes: 0

When my physicality is involved, it's kind of my comfort zone, so I find it much easier to access emotions. Votes: 0

You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality Votes: 0

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient. Votes: 0

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you. Votes: 0

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality. Votes: 0

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy. Votes: 0

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing. Votes: 0

When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress. Votes: 0

We are the Rainbow Generation,the Light split into color due to the physicality of observation;the One harmonious sound being distorted through differing notes... Votes: 0

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality. Votes: 0

I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can physically occupy a song. Votes: 0

The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment. Votes: 0

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary. Votes: 0

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date. Votes: 0

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing. Votes: 0

Now, it's so sacred. It's how I see the world. I can't help but look at people, their physicality, and how they move. It's how I see everything. Votes: 0

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality. Votes: 0

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing. Votes: 0

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25. Votes: 0

My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own. Votes: 0

I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them. Votes: 0

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying. Votes: 0

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating. Votes: 0

I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence. Votes: 0

The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play. Votes: 0

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them. Votes: 0

The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence. Votes: 0

All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something. Votes: 0

I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness. Votes: 0

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me. Votes: 0

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before. Votes: 0

There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos. Votes: 0

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes. Votes: 0

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them. Votes: 0

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes. Votes: 0

It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible. Votes: 0

I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there. Votes: 0