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The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
A face isn't an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot.
As long as you put the effort in with your practice, the muscles in your arm stay relaxed and mental preparation is all it takes.
For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.
I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.
Gay people are all like Superman. You have to be quite strong to be gay - or to be different in any way. You build special muscles.
Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.
Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.
I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back of your leg.
The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.
We're going to work hard on my body, put on some muscles. That's going to help me a lot to run faster, to move quicker, to jump higher.
Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.
At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.
Pilates makes you feel good because you're doing something that's good for your body, and you start seeing it. It elongates the muscles.
There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.
For a ballerina, the center of balance is everything - creating a strong center of balance begins with building strong abdominal muscles.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
I learned the process of this kind of acting, how things run, how chaotic it can be, and what kind of different muscles you have to flex.
I don't stick to a routine, because I like to mix things up, which stops training becoming boring and helps shock muscles into firing up.
Pilates works all the small muscles in your body and there's so much core that comes with it - and core is so important for a quarterback.
Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Well, being fit is not about flaunting muscles or biceps. Being fit is about flexibility and fit is about flexibility and body composition.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
I want to get stronger. I want to get slimmer. I'm already slimmer, but I want to get some muscles so I can fight all these guys in the post.
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
When you're hypermobile, it's easy to think your muscles are flexible, but your flexibility is really around your joints and not your muscles.
It's just so fun to wake up in the morning and have new muscles on your body. It does make you feel like a bigger, better version of yourself.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
I'd watch Edwin van der Sar and try and steal things with my eyes from how he played, because he wasn't all muscles and was a similar build to me.
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.
There are 800 some muscles, 200 some bones. Your body works in three planes of motion: arms, legs - pentadactyl limbs. That's what we're working with.
If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.
I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.
You become more aware of your body when you go through a long injury. You work on things you don't know about until you get injured, so different muscles.