Clemence Poesy Quotes

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.

I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you're in wardrobe, and then you're just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you're doing, and it's this great back and forth. Because you've done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.