Marcel Marceau Quotes

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

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

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

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.

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

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

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.

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.

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

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

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 without words?

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

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