Quotes from Marcel Marceau...
I have to admit I was a little surprised til I thought about it! :)
Rest in peace, monsieur.
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* Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
o The Reader’s Digest (June 1958)
* 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.
o Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
* Non!
o No!
o Silent Movie (1976) The only spoken word in the entire Mel Brooks comedy film.
* Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
o US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
* Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
o US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
* In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
o US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
* Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.
o US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
* To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
o US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
* I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
o The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
* 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.
o Interview, The Lantern (5 April 2001)
* 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.
o Interview The Lantern (5 April 2001) Replying to two priests who, after a performance of his routines of "The Creation of The World" and "The Hands of Good and Evil", asked if he was religious.
* 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.
o Interview The Lantern (5 April 2001)
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* A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
* It's good to shut up sometimes.
* What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
