Marcel Marceau Quotes

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

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

Tim Watson

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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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#6. Silence is like a flame, you see?

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

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity
he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find ...

Michelle Latiolais

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

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

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#20. Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

Frederick Lenz

#21. 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.

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#23. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time.

Douglas Pagels

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

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

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#26. We sat in silence, staring out into the street, listening to the creak of the porch swing, the crickets, and the occasional gunshot.

Will McIntosh

#27. Forget how vast darkness can be
Focus on how powerful your light is ...
When you turn it on

Roxana Jones

#28. 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