Mark Twain Quotes

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

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.

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

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

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

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.

American Sign Language requires a lot of facial and body expression.

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.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

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.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

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

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

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

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.

There's a lot you can do without words.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.