Marcel Marceau Quotes

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Love, Dream, Moving

  "Farewell, Marceau: the mime's best performances" by Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2007.

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Invisible, Magician, Mime

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

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• 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.

  Marcel Marceau

  Art, Hands, Creative

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• It's good to shut up sometimes.

  Marcel Marceau

  Inspirational, Funny, Life And Love

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Funny, Music, Silence

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Borders, Mime, Knows

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Talking, Advice, Mime

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Reflection, People, Silence

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marcel Marceau

  Waste, Terrible, Mime

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Inspiration, Simple, Deceitful

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• No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.

  Marcel Marceau

  Art, Perfection, Silence

  The Lantern Interview, April 5, 2001.

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• Silence is like a flame, you see?

  Marcel Marceau

  Flames, Silence, Silence Is

  Interview with Charlie Rose, September 27, 2000.

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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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• I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

  Marcel Marceau

  Destiny, Men, Light

  Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1965.

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Destiny, Plot, Opera

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• 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.

  Marcel Marceau

  Religious, Father, Practice

  The Lantern Interview, April 5, 2001.

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• One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.

  Marcel Marceau

  Responsibility, Men, Giving

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