Jonathan Carroll Quotes

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

There's a lot you can do without words.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

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

I'm not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions. I put all of my emotion in my wrestling.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

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 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.

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

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

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.

Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them.