Dakota Fanning Quotes

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

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

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

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

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

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

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

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The voice is a second face.

Gestures matter.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

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.

Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.

I move my face so much, because I'm very much expressive.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

You can't rely on your face or body to convey emotion.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

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.

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.