Maria Montessori Quotes

Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part.

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.

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

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

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

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

I am an observant. I like to observe people.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

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

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

I love observing people.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

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.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

What makes characters so interesting when you're an actor or a dancer is to watch and observe how people walk and move and speak. Are they cat-like? Are they walrus-like? Why does that person bother me, and why do I think they are the way they are?