Peter Farb 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 like my hands. They do most of the talking.

Gestures matter.

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.

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

How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." 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.

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

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.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

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

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.

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

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

There's a lot you can do without words.

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

Modeling is really silent acting.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.