Quotes About Embody

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

Aspire to be who you most admire

Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.

Religion is perhaps most helpfully conceived of as the question of what tales and traditions our lives embody.

one must oneself, in relations with one's friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it

Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it. The Rule of Two.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

And I have some poetry that I would like to recite to you in honor of the recent, um, transformations in your life." Tootie put a hand on her chest. "This is Rilke," she said. "'You, sent out beyond your recall, / go to the limits of your longing. / Embody me. / Flare up like flame / and make big shadows I can move in.

Live as many lives as you can.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

As actors, I really feel that unless you don't believe in the part, you won't be able to portray it on screen.

To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

I always look at the motives behind each scene. You can play that out tonally with how you express yourself or you can do that with your physical expression, your physical presence. So I always think about what physical presence I want to embody in each scene.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

The goal of the actor is to internalize, to assimilate, and to integrate the accent so that it becomes simply the character's natural individual way of speaking. When

The body knows things the thinking mind can only imagine.

Go to the Limits of Your Longing God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. From The Book of Hours I, 59

As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.