Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

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

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 just love human emotion and faces.

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst.

Trump is loose and obvious with his facial expressions. You could watch Donald Trump in a debate and not hear any of the words and you'll still get a sense for when he's pleased, when he's angry and when he's not.

Isn't it annoying when your face doesn't do what you want it to express?

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.

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.

Crying does not equal good acting.

You know the thing about a picture being worth a thousand words? A look can be worth a million.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

I hate it when she tabs a line," Ivy whispered to Kisten in the corner. "You ever see anything freakier than that?" "You should see the face she makes when she—" "Shut up, Kist!" I exclaimed, my eyes flashing open to find him grinning at me.

The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'

All my muscles are in my face. I have a very muscular face. I'm good with faces. I always have been.

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.