Top 60 Physicality Quotes

In the NBA they’ve taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I’m gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.

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.

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 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?

Blocking is part physicality and part physics. You have to be the lower man and get your hands inside to control your opponent’s mass. If you have short footwork, tight hands and if you play low, you can hold your own.

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.

I am a big NBA fan, where a lot of players play on physicality.

I think the physicality of being an athlete or working out, it grounds you. It centers you.

Now you’ve been in the playoffs once, you know what it tastes like, you know what it feels like. You know, going through the season when Coach is preaching physicality, how hard you gotta play, how you gotta take care of the ball, why he’s saying that. Because all that comes into play in playoff basketball.

The three books I’ve written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes.

There’s different ways of getting into character. There’s what’s called ‘the outside,’ in which is finding the physicality of the character first. To give an example, in ‘Gettin’ Square’ – Johnny Spitieri – that’s how I found that character. I knew those people that I’d seen up at Kings Cross. I knew how they sounded.

I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the Premier League. Technically, some of the teams there are absolutely tip top.

Football is always going to be a means to an end. The physicality of the game – your body can’t hold up. There’s life after football, and I do worry. I don’t want to put myself in jeopardy. I probably need to be more cautious, but this is me. It still isn’t going to change the way I play.

During the shooting of ‘Manthan,’ I lived in the hut, learnt to make cow dung cakes and milk a buffalo. I would carry the buckets and serve the milk to the unit to get the physicality of the character.

Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior’s craziness and weird personality and Sting’s coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.

Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don’t access day to day. In my day-to-day physicality, I’m a little bit like a terrier. I’ve always been described as a dog. I’m kind of goofy and a little dopey looking sometimes.

There’s a scene in ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ where this guy dances with a giant doll while singing ‘Make ‘Em Laugh.’ I remember loving the pure physicality of it.

All comedians have to use their physicality, so I use my size.

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.

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.

Because of the increased physicality of the sport, golf apparel companies began incorporating more performance-based materials into their designs, as well as updating styles that had fallen out of fashion over the years.

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.

Dybala’s game is easier on the eye, but Pogba is extraordinary because he has physicality and technique.

You have to work with your body when you dance; you can’t shy away from your physicality. For me, it’s really linked to an incandescent way of accepting yourself and projecting. The dancing was at the core from the beginning.

Jorginho is not a player that has a lot of physicality and mobility but he is very intelligent and is always in the right place. If you have someone who can help him, he can make a big difference. It’s just about getting the best out of him.

Jekyll is quite me: young man; polite. But being able to play Hyde was quite fun, to create a character that’s nothing like me. I quite enjoyed creating a new character like that: he had a different voice; physicality; mannerisms. Everything had to be thought about. It was a real challenge.

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

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.

I don’t like to use the word ‘fake.’ A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There’s a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can’t deny that.

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.

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that’s where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

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.

If there’s one thing I’ve shown, I’m not scared of physicality. I’m not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured.

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

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

I discovered my physicality, I discovered running, and endorphins, and the sort of amazing way that people are meant to move. And that’s what’s great about ‘Hanna,’ because she moves. She’s human and she embodies all of that.

You have to put your body through a lot of physicality with wrestling.

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.’

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.

Not to say you should let your physicality define you, but there are some things that can make people feel really insecure. So, if there is something you want to fix that allows you to feel a little bit more confident, I support it.

At first sight, Pogba was notable for his size and physicality, and when you got to know him, there was also a confidence about him.

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn’t know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

My biggest influence is Chris Rock. His physicality is like a caged tiger – pacing the stage – how he walks back and forth.

A ladder match is a career altering match, the physicality of it is second to none.

A relationship will be futile if it’s based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

I find that the work I do as an actor that’s most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.

In the ’90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I’m expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

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.

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