Marcel Marceau: Mime

Marcel Marceau was French mime and actor. Explore interesting quotes on mime.

Marcel Marceau: 26 quotes 8 likes

“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.”

Marcel Marceau

Interview http://www.thelantern.com/global_user_elements/printpage.cfm?storyid=63845, The Lantern (5 April 2001)

Soul , Cry

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

Marcel Marceau

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."

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

Marcel Marceau

US News & World Report (23 February 1987)