Karan Mahajan Quotes

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

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.

It's so important to look relaxed.

Politics is intensely physical: your hands touch, clasp and hold, and your eyes are always reaching for contact. None of this came naturally to me. I'd always put my trust in words and let the words do the work, but in politics, the real message is physical.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

Confidence is everything, and the way you carry yourself, your posture, eye contact, all of that is such a big role in impressions, regardless of your size.

I think my body language and how I carry myself speaks for me as a person.

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 see tendencies, I see body language.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

I love body language.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.