Marcel Marceau Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.

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

Silence is like a flame, you see?

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,

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

It's good to shut up sometimes.

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.

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.