Gestures Quotes

When a makeup is as painful as that which I wore as Blizzard in The Penalty (1920/I), when I had my legs strapped up and couldn`t bear it that way more than 20 minutes at a time - when I have to be a cripple, as in The Miracle Man (1919) or have to keep a certain attitude of body, as I did in Shadows (1922/I), it sometimes takes a good deal of imagination to forget your physical sufferings. Yet, at that, the subconscious mind has a marvelous way of making you keep the right attitudes and make the right gestures when you are actually acting.

I can`t do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it`s like putting on dirty panties every day.

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.

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.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it`s considered romantic. When women do it, it`s often considered desperate or psycho.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Listen, I don`t know. It`s all theory. If I knew what I was talking about, I would be running the studio. That`s why they keep changing the heads of the studios: Nobody knows. Nobody knows. But I`m sure it has affected the quality of movies. Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don`t think you can do anything that`s very sensitive. Everything`s sort of broad strokes and big gestures -- adventure things that boys, guys -- want to see.

Hal and I are close friends. I understand his language, his humor, his film language, what he is trying to say. I tell actors who are new to Hal--this is more like dance. It`s not acting naturalistically, it`s carefully choreographed. Gestures are important and specific gestures are very important. -- On Writer/Director Hal Hartley

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

I was going to be vacationing in Aruba and just wanted to try something different. It`s great, it`s like you are in your own world down there, even though there are always other people with you. You can only use gestures, you can`t talk to each other.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

I was worried in the `80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

(Wong suggested Charles Bukowski as a role model.) I didn't ask him why, ... But I knew it would not be easy, because the original Mr. Chow was still inside me. I got used to his body language, his tempo, his gestures, his voice. Now, with the same costume, the same sets, even the same hair cream, I would have to play the part differently.

Usually if she didn`t see this one employee she would leave ranting and raving. I could see her making gestures and just acting oddly. We never saw her with anybody. She was always alone.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality.