“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
Marcel Marceau was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence" and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years. As a youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris.
In 1959, he established his own pantomime school in Paris, and subsequently set up the Marceau Foundation to promote the art in the U.S. Among his various awards and honours he was made "Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur" and was awarded the National Order of Merit in France. He won the Emmy Award for his work on television, was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and was declared a "National treasure" in Japan. He was friends with Michael Jackson for nearly 20 years and Jackson said he used some of Marceau's techniques in his own dance steps.
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“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
Interview http://www.thelantern.com/global_user_elements/printpage.cfm?storyid=63845, The Lantern (5 April 2001)
US News & World R eport (23 February 1987)
“I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
As quoted in Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
Context: 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.
“Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.”
As quoted in Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978) by Lucy Gregor Brown; unsourced variant or misquotation: "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible."
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.
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
“To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.”
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?”
As quoted in The Reader’s Digest (June 1958)