Marisa Tomei Quotes

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

Body language is more powerful than words.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

There's a lot you can do without words.

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.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

I love body language.

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

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

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.

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

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from 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.

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.