Unspoken Emotion Quotes

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Even silence is so articulate at times.

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.

There's timing in drama. You have to have a sense of rhythm. But the real thing that lends yourself to drama as opposed to comedy is a sense from the audience of whether there's more to it than you can see.

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.