Earl Long Quotes

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Gestures matter.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

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.