Expressions Quotes

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For an actor, facial expressions and emotions are really important. That`s why I`ll never have Botox. I`ve always been against that and seeing Botox on TV with all the swelling and pain put me off it anyway. The directors always allow actors with Botox but I just say. "No way, not for me". Drinking lots of water, eating fruit and doing yoga is what keeps me looking young naturally. I swear by it. I also use creams with natural ingredients to make wrinkles less visible. Everybody should try these things rather than going the plastic route, which I just hate.

- Nicole Kidman

"Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead." (on his acting talents)

- Robert Mitchum

"I`m working with a dialect coach, but it`s not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like `peritoneal lavage`, you know, these medical expressions... I don`t want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller."

- Goran Visnjic

I don`t like being called Elvis The Pelvis. That`s gotta be one of the most childish expressions I`ve ever heard coming from an adult.

- Elvis Presley

When they decide they want to expand their repertoire of facial expressions, say, play a character part, or do a period piece, it`s often their fate, tragically, that they fail. Few actors have learned about acting by doing successful movies. Tom Cruise has, and Tom Hanks. - On mainstream box-office actors.

- Val Kilmer

Usually I`m frustrated when I look at my films and I don`t believe that I`ve made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it`s me, that I didn`t create a unique character.

- Helena Bonham Carter

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one`s normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

- Helena Bonham Carter

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they`ve animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you`re reading it - so they`ll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

- John Goodman

Comedy`s easy for me now - it`s all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

- Melissa Joan Hart

The citizen`s job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

- John Ralston Saul

She has such vitality that shows in her face and expressions,

- Mary Louise

I`ve never received a nomination for an Academy Award - and that after I went to the trouble of learning two more facial expressions.

- Roger Moore

You know in his tone of voice, his facial expressions. When he has a meeting, he doesn`t have to scream and yell, he can just give you that face and that tone he has, and you know we had better pick it up and get going again.

- Tino Martinez

With Harry, I am always in control of the expressions and the performance. With the Predator it is half performance and half dealing with the physical traps. There`s a balance you got to keep inside the suit. You`ve got to keep your character going while dealing with the fact that you`ve got all these wires and FX things coming out of you. It all boils down to concentration and being well-rehearsed.

- Kevin Peter Hall

I guess it`s sort of this naive character that I play. I also do a velociraptor, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. I like writing a good joke. I like being able to use my physical-ness, like facial expressions and stuff to really take home a joke and get it across - especially like in Tiffin.

- Tom Clark

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

- Marcus Aurelius

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

- Jacob Bronowski

In Indian diversity there is still the memory of very refined expressions which we have lost

- Francesco Clemente

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author`s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

- Guy Debord

You can`t do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can`t put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

- James Herriot

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

- Ted Olson

But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.

- AJ Nicholson

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

- Alex Anderson

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

- Alex Garwood

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

- Alex Linnenkohl

They`ve found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world`s great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.

- Alisha Marigoni

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... Identity is performatively constituted by the very `expressions` that are said to be its results.

- Allen Beck

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

- Alvin Hellerstein

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

- Andre Payne

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

- Andrew Stephens

This endorsement and expressions of support points to what we have been saying since the beginning of the campaign and that is:

- Antonio Carlos

Years ago, when I was doing the show Southern Expressions, Scott had just come to work here. Scott was the shooter for the event. He hooked up the camera to the back of the truck, and then he had the truck tow the car I was in, and he shot the scene through the windshield. From that moment, I thought this guy has got something going. He`s something special.

- Ap Dijksterhuis

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

- Rudolf Bing