Marcel Marceau Quotes

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.

Avant de dire quelque chose, il faut s'assurer que le silence ne soit pas plus important.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

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

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

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

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

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