Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

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.

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.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

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.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

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

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.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

Hands have their own language.

Body language is more powerful than words.

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.

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

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.