Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

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.

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

When we're sad, we slouch. We also slouch when we feel scared or powerless.

I think anger is a good thing.

There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

I just love human emotion and faces.

Dancing is one of the best ways of expressing yourself, and I definitely use it to release emotion.

I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling that's so pure, or overwhelming inside of you that your body disfigures to it - contortions match your confusion.

Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.

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

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

Emotion is created by motion.

Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

When my physicality is involved, it's kind of my comfort zone, so I find it much easier to access emotions.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

Behavior shapes emotions.