Grenville Kleiser Quotes

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

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

Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

I'm good at reading people.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

You don't need words to express feelings.

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

I love body language.

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.

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

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.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.