Marcel Marceau citations

Marcel Marceau, dit le mime Marceau, nom de scène de Marcel Mangel, est un mime et acteur français, né le 22 mars 1923 à Strasbourg et mort le 22 septembre 2007 à Cahors. Il a connu une célébrité internationale avec son personnage silencieux de Bip, créé en 1947. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. mars 1923 – 22. septembre 2007
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Marcel Marceau: Citations en anglais

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

US News & World Report (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)
Contexte: 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.

“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.”

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

“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."

“Silence is like a flame, you see?”

Interview Charlie Rose (27 September 2000)

“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.”

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.

“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)

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

US News & World Report (23 February 1987)

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