Top 55 Marceau Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Marceau

#1. It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated.

Eva Green

#2. Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner!

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#3. In the words of Marcel Marceau...

Tim Watson

#4. Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Sophie Marceau

#5. 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

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

Marcel Marceau

#7. All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

Sophie Marceau

#8. You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

Sophie Marceau

#9. A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Marcel Marceau

#10. To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

Sophie Marceau

#11. Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Sophie Marceau

#12. 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

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

Marcel Marceau

#14. As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Sophie Marceau

#15. I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

Sophie Marceau

#16. When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Sophie Marceau

#17. I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Sophie Marceau

#18. There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

Sophie Marceau

#19. 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

#20. And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

Sophie Marceau

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

Marcel Marceau

#22. Silence is like a flame, you see?

Marcel Marceau

#23. 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

#24. I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Sophie Marceau

#25. Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

Sophie Marceau

#26. Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.

Sophie Marceau

#27. Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Sophie Marceau

#28. I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

Sophie Marceau

#29. 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

#30. But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

Sophie Marceau

#31. 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

#32. There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

Sophie Marceau

#33. I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

Sophie Marceau

#34. A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.

Marcel Marceau

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

Marcel Marceau

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Marcel Marceau

#37. Relationships are difficult. It's life. You love life, so you fight. You fight because you love. Otherwise, you wouldn't fight. You work. You don't want to die. Why life is a fight, I don't know, but gosh! It is.

Sophie Marceau

#38. 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

#39. What I am interested in is the present time.

Sophie Marceau

#40. It's good to shut up sometimes.

Marcel Marceau

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

Marcel Marceau

#42. I'm a good storyteller.

Sophie Marceau

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

Marcel Marceau

#44. Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Sophie Marceau

#45. Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Sophie Marceau

#46. I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

Sophie Marceau

#47. You wouldnt kill me. Youd miss me!

Sophie Marceau

#48. Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,

Marcel Marceau

#49. 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

#50. It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

Sophie Marceau