Ian Holm Quotes

I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

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

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

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 eyes have one language everywhere.

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

You can tell everything from the eyes.

Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.

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.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

You're not listening with your eyes.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.