Marceau Quotes & Sayings

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world. — Sophie Marceau

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes. — Sophie Marceau

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress. — Sophie Marceau

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before. — Sophie Marceau

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself. — Sophie Marceau

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people. — Sophie Marceau

I'm a good storyteller. — Sophie Marceau

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture. — Sophie Marceau

Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work. — Sophie Marceau

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too. — Sophie Marceau

Take space. It has to be either finite or infinite, yet neither possibility sits well with our intuitions. When I try to imagine a finite universe, I get Marcel Marceau miming on an invisible wall with his hands. Or, after reading about manifolds in books on physics, I see ants creeping over a sphere, or people trapped in a huge inner tube unaware of all the exposure around them. But in all these cases the volume is stubbornly suspended in a larger space, which shouldn't be there at all, but which my minds eye can't help but peek at. — Steven Pinker

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun. — Sophie Marceau

A mime is a terrible thing to waste. — Marcel Marceau

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of. — Sophie Marceau

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? — Marcel Marceau

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive. — Sophie Marceau

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. — Marcel Marceau

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Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct — Marcel Marceau

You wouldnt kill me. Youd miss me! — Sophie Marceau

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. — Sophie Marceau

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you. — Sophie Marceau

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality. — Sophie Marceau

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities, — Marcel Marceau

A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible. — Marcel Marceau

It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated. — Eva Green

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh. — Sophie Marceau

What I am interested in is the present time. — Sophie Marceau

Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

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

One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders. — Marcel Marceau

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. — Marcel Marceau

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

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them. — Marcel Marceau

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond. — Sophie Marceau

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art. — Marcel Marceau

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. — Marcel Marceau

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far. — Sophie Marceau

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

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life. — Sophie Marceau

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies. — Sophie Marceau

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

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language. — Sophie Marceau

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. — Marcel Marceau

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. — Sophie Marceau

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand. — Sophie Marceau

Relationships are difficult. It's life. You love life, so you fight. You fight because you love. Otherwise, you wouldn't fight. You work. You don't want to die. Why life is a fight, I don't know, but gosh! It is. — Sophie Marceau

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. — Sophie Marceau

In the words of Marcel Marceau... — Tim Watson

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English. — Sophie Marceau

Silence is like a flame, you see? — Marcel Marceau

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you. — Sophie Marceau

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. — Marcel Marceau

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions. — Sophie Marceau

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

I know I found his lips and let him caress me without realizing that I, too, was crying and didn't know why. That dawn, and all the ones that followed in the two weeks I spent with Julian, we made love to one another on the floor, never saying a word. Later, sitting in a cafe or strolling through the streets, I would look into his eyes and know, without any need to question him, that he still loved Penelope. I remember that during those days I learned to hate that seventeen-year-old girl (for Penelope was always seventeen to me) whom I had never met and who now haunted my dreams. I invented excuses for cabling Cabestany to prolong my stay. I no longer cared whether I lost my job or the grey existence I had left behind in Barcelona. I have often asked myself whether my life was so empty when I arrived in Paris that I fell into Julian's arms - like Irene Marceau's girls, who, despite themselves, craved for affection. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's good to shut up sometimes. — Marcel Marceau