Elizabeth Taylor 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.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Body language is more powerful than words.

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

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.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

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.

There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.

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.

I love body language.

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

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

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.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes.

Even silence speaks.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

I have these big brown eyes, so ever since I was a baby, you could tell what I was feeling and thinking based on my eyes.