“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
Marcel Marceau: 13 citations0 J'aime
Marcel Marceau: Citations en anglais
“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.
US News & World R eport (23 February 1987)
Interview The Lantern (5 April 2001)
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)
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.
“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)
“Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.”
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
