Quotes About Embody

There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's bad; it has to be an embodiment. You have to live it, not just sound and look like it.

I used to do contemporary dance, I'd pretend to be a tree or a rock.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

We must be the world we want to create.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

You must become what you want to attract.

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.

It is singular, however, how long a time often passes before words embody things; and with what security two persons, who choose to avoid a certain subject, may approach its very verge, and retire without disturbing it.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us that we might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

One must take human form to engage in human affairs. It was difficult.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

In the place of roses be a rose, and where there are thorns be a thorn.

Since childhood, I've been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.