Marceau Marcel Quotes & Sayings

Life perpetuated in parti-colored loves
and beautiful lies all in different languages. — Frank O'Hara

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter. — Frederick Lenz

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally. — Jo Brand

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face. — Mary-Louise Parker

Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz — Henry Bird

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've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me. — Shannon L. Alder

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

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

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

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

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

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. — Peter Singer

A mime is a terrible thing to waste. — Marcel 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

Language is not the barrier, the heart is".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries. — John Negroponte

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

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love. — Tim O'Reilly

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

Things will be different this time," Caine said. "There was too much contention, too much violence the last time. I tried to be a peaceful leader. But thing went badly."
"I wonder why," Diana muttered.
"These people," Caine said grandly, sweeping his arm towards the town, "need more than a leader. They need ... a king. — Michael Grant

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

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ, it's here. And the hour's late. And the war's begun. And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colors. — Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

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

Our brains are organized by narrative and image. After — Gloria Steinem

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

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

Because every relationship will end up one of two ways: you'll end up breaking up, or you end up
marrying the person. And I don't like wasting my time. — Mariana Zapata