Gesture Language Quotes

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

I experienced many moments when we were able to overcome language barriers. When they like something during our shows, American audiences would tend to show our fox signs or move their bodies.

A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your crossed wrists over your heart (the middle of your chest, anyway); then move your hands outwards a short distance, and open them towards the object of your love. It’s just as eloquent as speech.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

I never liked miming.

When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.