Ray Fearon Quotes

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

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!

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.

Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part.

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

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we're trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

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

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

What makes characters so interesting when you're an actor or a dancer is to watch and observe how people walk and move and speak. Are they cat-like? Are they walrus-like? Why does that person bother me, and why do I think they are the way they are?

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.