Felipe Massa Quotes

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.

An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.

Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

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.

I'm not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions. I put all of my emotion in my wrestling.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

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.'

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

I definitely have some stereotypical qualities of being a Latina. I talk with my hands, which means I knock stuff over all the time.

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

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.