William Safire Quotes

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

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

I love body language.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

You have to learn to express differently. Whenever I do TV or film, I ask if I can see the shot to see, to see if it's full body or a close-up. That helps me understand how to communicate.

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.

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.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

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

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

There's a lot you can do without words.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

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.

Gestures matter.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

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.

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

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

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.