Chief Joseph Quotes

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

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.

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

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

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

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.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

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

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

I love body language.

There's a lot you can do without words.

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 eyes have one language everywhere.

Gestures matter.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.