Mime Quotes

• Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

  Marcel Marceau

  Invisible, Magician, Visible

  "Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools". Book by Betty McDavid and Lucy Gregor Brown, 1978.

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• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

  Marcel Marceau

  Communication, Men, Thinking

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

  Marcel Marceau

  Bridges, People, Fluidity

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• The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Expression

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.

  Marcel Marceau

  Laughing, Soul, Cry

  The Lantern Interview, April 5, 2001.

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• Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

  Marcel Marceau

  Talking, Advice

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

  Marcel Marceau

  Borders, Knows, Nationality

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• If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Use

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• In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

  Signe Baumane

  Talking, Perfect, Acting

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marcel Marceau

  Waste, Terrible, Terrible Things

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• Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

  Anthony Daniels

  Real, Technique, Watches

  "A Q&A with Anthony Daniels (C3PO), touring with 'Star Wars: In Concert'". Interview with Tom Keogh, www.seattletimes.com. October 12, 2009.

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• If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

  Jess Walter

  Police, Doe, Needs

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• To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

  Kelly McGillis

  Acting, Troupe, Streets

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• Love is a jeering mime.

  Kenneth Rand

  Love, Love Is, Jeering

  Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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• I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

  Karl Pilkington

  People, Looks

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• What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

  Marcel Marceau

  Attitude, Essence, Important

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• Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

  Bob Saget

  Wish, Sometimes, Realizing

  Twitter post from Oct 16, 2011

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• I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

  Kristanna Loken

  Training, Weight, Weapons

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• I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of 'Bringing Out the Dead' and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fall, Past, Ideas

  "Nicolas Cage: 'I Want To Keep Romance and Passion Alive in Myself'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Different, Elevators, Frightened

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

  Laurie Notaro

  People, Welcome, Clown

  Laurie Notaro (2007). “There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble”, p.275, Villard

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• In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

  Warwick Davis

  Skills, Needs, Body

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 07, 2001.

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• If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

  Gary Larson

  Fall, Tree, Doe

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• Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

  Nick Harkaway

  Heaven, Hell, Known

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