Marcel Marceau

“What a mime is, is a human being who has gone into the depths of his heart and his soul, and he brings out what he has found in his heart and his soul.”

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

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

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

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

“Mime is the art of expressing feelings by attitudes and not a means of expressing words through gestures.”

“I have designed my style of performance to be a bridge between cultures.”

“The art of mime is an art of metamorphosis.”

“I am a silent witness of my time.”

“Silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

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

“The Clown is a poet in action. He is the image of mirth and imagination.”