Simon Van Booy Quotes

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

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.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

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.

Gestures matter.

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.

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

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

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.

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.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

It seemed really easy waving your hands around, it wouldn't make any difference if you were moving it left or right, but I wanted to do it realistically. I think you can tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing.