Mitch Hedberg Quotes

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

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

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

There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.

Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.

Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.