Abbey Lee Kershaw Quotes

Gestures matter.

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 literally can't talk without moving hands.

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

Hands have their own language.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

Modeling is really silent acting.

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

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

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

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.

I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

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.

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.

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

I love body language.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.