The Best Marcel Marceau quotes

Silence is like a flame, you see? — Marcel Marceau

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

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

Silence in the turmoil of the theater world made me survive 50 years without speaking on a stage, only to say ‘No’ in Mel Brooks’ film, ‘Silent Movie.’ — Marcel Marceau

A mime is a terrible thing to waste. — Marcel Marceau

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

Never get a mime talking. he won’t stop. — Marcel Marceau

I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world. — Marcel Marceau

When you’re in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing. — Marcel Marceau

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth. — Marcel Marceau

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible. — Marcel Marceau

Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion. — Marcel Marceau

I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives. — Marcel Marceau

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day. — Marcel Marceau

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

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

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

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life. — Marcel Marceau

I have spent more than half a lIfetIme tryIng to express the tragIc moment. — Marcel Marceau

I wouldn’t imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows. — Marcel Marceau

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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

All wars are criminal. — Marcel Marceau

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

I don’t want our youth to become anti–romantic. We have to make room for the soul. — Marcel Marceau

I have never been a victim of antisemitism–if you put to one side my war–time experience. That said, I am lucky not to have been sent into a concentration camp. — Marcel Marceau

There is only one Marceau. — Marcel Marceau

It’s good to shut up sometimes. — Marcel Marceau

Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a peaceful struggle for the enlightenment of humanity. — Marcel Marceau

Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern–day Don Quixote. — Marcel Marceau