“I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.”

— Stephen Fry

on his frustrating inability to sing
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)

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English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957

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“Shut up! We can’t hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis”

Don Winslow book The Cartel

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“The sounds emanating from the uterine core of the Democratic Party are the subhuman grunts and growls one hears from animals in estrus or mid-feed. Something is terribly wrong with them.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

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2010s, 2018

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

Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor

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."