Pamela Meyer Quotes

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

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

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

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

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.

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

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

My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally.

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

Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

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

There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a wall.

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

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

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.

Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'

All my muscles are in my face. I have a very muscular face. I'm good with faces. I always have been.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.