Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body.

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines.

The voice is a second face.

I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

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.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

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

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

Emotionally I'm an introvert but it come off as aggression

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority