Emotional Leakage Quotes

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

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.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

I'm a very what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of person, and my family always laughs at me. They're like, 'You have minus-zero poker-face skills. We just have to look at your face and we know what's wrong with you.'

When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we're trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.

We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's eating at you and eating at you, and you want to say it to the person that you care about the most, but you're so afraid it's going to destroy everything. Like the fear of destruction keeps one from saying what they want to say - when, in actuality, by not saying it, things get worse. Because it's the entropy, the leak that doesn't get fixed.

Everything I'm thinking in my head goes onto my face, so you can see right through me.

The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.

What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.

Isn't it annoying when your face doesn't do what you want it to express?

My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises or anything, I promise! I try to maintain a neutral mass, but they just sort of go with whatever the situation is!

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.