Damien Fahey Quotes

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes.

I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief to me right there. You betcha!

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.

Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

There's a lot you can do without words.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.

When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures.

You know the thing about a picture being worth a thousand words? A look can be worth a million.

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.