Balthazar Getty Quotes

I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.

If I'm super scared or sick, I'll still suck my thumb.

When I am stressed I pluck my beard, leaving bald patches.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

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

I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

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.

I'm normally last and I'm quite a late person and that is just who I am.

When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.

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.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

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 have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.