David Oyelowo Quotes

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

I love body language.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don't have any problem at all." "I don't think it's that simple." "Sure it is." "The earth moved," she said softly. "That has to be more than bodies communicating.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

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

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

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

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

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

Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes.

After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people who sat across from me began to cry. I was incredibly moved by this experience also, and was very curious to know what happens in our brains when we spend time not talking, just looking at one another.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

Growing up as a little, introverted boy, dance was the only way I could communicate. For me, it's the greatest language - no words. Sharing people's stories through the art of movement is magical.

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

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.