Dan Fogler Quotes

I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

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.

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I tell you, I've always been quite physical about acting. I've always felt about for the shape of someone or the deportment, for better or worse. Sometimes I think I've done it disastrously, and other times, when I'm not thinking about it so much, less disastrously, but I can't seem to control it much.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

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.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your whole body. I think acting with your whole body gives you a root, and you can build from there.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.