Sofia Boutella Quotes

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

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

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I love body language.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

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.

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.

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

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

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.