Mime Quotes - Page 2

• I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

  Wesley Snipes

  College, Florida, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Art, New York, College

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• When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

  Graham Chapman

  Bird, Deaf, Used

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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• Nothing?Micheal!You're 'playing'!.IN PUBLIC? 'That's new?' Claire whisperd to shhane 'He hasn't played anywhere but our living room since-Teeth-in-neck mime 'You know Oliver' 'Oh.' micheal's face was turning pink.'just put it back,OK?It's no big deal! Eve kissed him.

  Rachel Caine

  Teeth, Rooms, Faces

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• Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

  Jamy Ian Swiss

  Giving, Magic, Looks

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• That's actually kind of scary. Sex with a mime. Do I have to pay extra to make sure you don't do the trapped-in-a-box thing while we're doing it?

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Sex, Scary, Pay

  Suzanne Brockmann (2014). “Do or Die: Reluctant Heroes”, p.271, Ballantine Books

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• Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Rumor, Waste, Despite

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• I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

  Ben Hecht

  Australia, Bird, Kind

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

  Christopher Walken

  Interesting, Actors, Terrible

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• Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

  Jasper Fforde

  Moving, Said, Threatened

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• I've always liked walking; that's one of my favorite things to do, and I try to walk every day. [In Washington, D.C.] I can't walk outside, but we have the treadmill. And I walked eight miles at the ranch last weekend. Now I also lift weights, which is also great for bone strength. [Mrs. Bush mimes a biceps curl and laughs.] I'm very, very strong, actually.

  Laura Bush

  Strong, Weekend, Eight

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• Yoga, unlike dance or mime,
  is not an expression of form for others to watch.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Expression, Watches

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1980). “Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice”, p.46, University Press of America

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• I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

  Stephen Fry

  Party, Mushrooms, Rays

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.78, Soho Press

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• I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

  David Bowie

  Numbers, Important, Theatre

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview" by Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

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• I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

  Steven Wright

  Narrators, Used, Used To Be

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• Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.

  Julie Taymor

  Eye, Years, Paris

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• If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?

  Steven Wright

  Needs, Use, Ifs

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• At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Moving, Men, Odds

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• Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

  Catharine Arnold

  Horse, Taken, Warrior

  Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

  Kerry Bishe

  Training, Chicago, Shows

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• I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.

  Jessica Lange

  Art, New York, Teaching

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.

  David Toop

  Years, Unions, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these different characters. That's what's exciting about this show [X-men], is the unusual casting.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Moving, Character, Men

  Source: www.ign.com

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