Eartha Kitt Quotes

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

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

I love body language.

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.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

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.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

Let me hear your body talk.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

Body language is more powerful than words.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

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.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

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

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

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

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.'

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

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.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

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