Kari Wahlgren Quotes

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.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

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

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

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

The voice is a second face.

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

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

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.

I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.

Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.

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.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

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

Where words fail, music speaks.

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.

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

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

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

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