My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.
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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.
Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.
When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.
Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
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.
When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.