J. G. Ballard Quotes

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

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.

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

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

It's hard to act with just your jaw.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

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.'

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Modeling is really silent acting.

When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

I talk with my hands. Some people don't like that. That's who I am.

Posturing is funny to me.

Gestures matter.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

It seemed really easy waving your hands around, it wouldn't make any difference if you were moving it left or right, but I wanted to do it realistically. I think you can tell if someone doesn't know what they're doing.