Freddie Highmore Quotes

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Hands have their own language.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Modeling is really silent acting.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I talk with my hands. Some people don't like that. That's who I am.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.