Mime Quotes - Page 3

• Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

  Denis Lavant

  Expression, Dancer, Firsts

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• If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

  Brad Warner

  Fall, Tree, Noise

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• This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

  Mark Lewisohn

  Radio, Odd, Program

  Mark Lewisohn (2013). “Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years”, p.726, Crown Archetype

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• (From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.

  Peter Carey

  Hurt, Perfect, Annoyed

  Peter Carey (1994). “Collected stories”

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, Odd Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

  Tom Bergeron

  Years, Years Ago, Taught

  "Tom Bergeron: Emmy Winner On How He’s Stayed Sane In Hollywood". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.

  Steven Morrissey

  Teenager, Kids, Mean

  Radio Interview with Janice Long, 2002.

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• A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing [mimes steering wheel]? This steers it'

  Steven Wright

  Feet, Car, Wheels

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