Subtle Signals Quotes

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

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

I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us - then they had relaxed, parted slightly. And that's when I had known he wanted to kiss me, wanted to give in. That little parting of the lips, the little sigh that came out... I would hear that sigh forever. That little, little sound when the whole world seemed to open up.

The little things that you do From across the room I see you sendin' me clues They're in the way You make me move

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

When I was growing up, you never knew whether people were being serious or not. There was a lot of nodding and winking.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.

Sometimes we wait for thunderclaps, drumrolls, and clarion calls to alert us to what's important when, actually, it's most often the subtle and persistent signals around us that make the most difference.

I dont understand flirting.