Marcel Marceau Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

It's good to shut up sometimes.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

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

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Silence is like a flame, you see?

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

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