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Quotes About Body language

I think as film actors we are comfortable on stage because we know what the audience expects. The only tricky part is to remember the lines and that body language is key, which is something we tend to forget after years of acting in front of a camera.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
~ Agnes de Mille
She recognized the body language of self-loathing. Something would have to be done about that. The dog in him must be expelled. He must become cat: pampered, svelte, spoiled, confident of his own unique beauty. It would be a pleasure to teach him that.
~ Storm Constantine
I don't naturally have the body language of a software guy.
~ Harshvardhan Rane
They made love through their eyes, while their gestures conveyed otherwise!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at her again, settling further into his seat with the slight sigh of one whose visitor has left and who is at last alone.
~ Muriel Spark
A glance can both submit and subvert; it can be sharp or shy, scornful or adoring; it can be a near cousin to scrutiny – but it almost always assumes a degree of mutually encoded knowledge. A spark is struck and apprehended; the head turns on it's spinal axis; the shoulders freeze; the eyes are the only busy part of the body, simultaneously receiving and sending out information, so that a glance becomes more than a glance. It is a weapon, a command, or a sigh of acquiescence.
~ Carol Shields
He'd rehearsed in his mind the greeting he would give, the posture he would have, the extent to which he would let the kids hanging around see what was happening between them.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn't accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people's thoughts. Of course, she couldn't admit I was literally hearing people's thoughts because that just didn't fit into her world.
~ Charlaine Harris
Your eyes are everything. (Maybe why some people give up on talking.)
~ Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
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~ Keith McCullough
It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake -- fairly or unfairly -- get me off to a bad start with a person.
~ bush george h w ii
Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
~ butler octavia e ii
My body is a whisper where hers is a shout.
~ Camilla Gibb
Si una mujer ofrece la mejilla para que su novio no la bese en la boca, hasta un ciego puede ver que ya no siente amor.
~ Isabel Allende
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~ Isabel Allende
The body says what words cannot.
~ Martha Graham
If we're in a scene together, I want to give you something that allows your performance to be truthful. In football, if you're opposite me, I want to destroy you, take your head off. I'm still reading body language, still reacting, still trusting my instincts - same as football - but it's different now.
~ Nnamdi Asomugha
I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves.
~ Glenda Jackson
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. - Max Eastman
~ Susan Garrett
Buttercup gives a flick of his tail that I take as agreement.
~ Suzanne Collins
When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.
~ Duane Chapman
Come, let us speak with our bodies.Teach me how to please you.I am here to learn.Let us not waste this time.It is the hour of union.ComeAnd after you do, Come again.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Facial expression.
~ Napoleon Hill