Joseph Brodsky Quotes

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

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.

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

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.

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.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

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.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

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.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.

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 want to let my feet speak.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

I move my face so much, because I'm very much expressive.

I explained it when I danced it.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.