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Marcel Marceau
13 quotes
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Reader’s Digest (June 1958)
“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.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Wall Street Journal (19 November 1965)
“Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.
“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
“Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: US News & World R eport (23 February 1987)
“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
“Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
“To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
“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 (1923–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview, The Lantern (5 April 2001)
“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.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.
“No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview The Lantern (5 April 2001)
“Silence is like a flame, you see?”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview Charlie Rose (27 September 2000)