Mime Quotes

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. (Marcel Marceau)
Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible. View quote
Marcel Marceau
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. View quote
Marcel Marceau
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. View quote
Stephen Fry
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? View quote
Steven Wright
(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean. View quote
Morrissey
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. View quote
Anthony Daniels
I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago. View quote
Kerry Bishe
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe. View quote
Kelly McGillis
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago. View quote
Tom Bergeron
Giacomo Rizzolatti... calls these "mirror neurons" and suggests that they provide the first insight into imitation, identification, empathy, and possibly the ability to mime vocalization-the mental processes intrinsic to human interaction. Vilayanur Ramachandran has found evidence of comparable neurons in the premotor cortex of people. ...one can see a whole new area of biology opening up... that can give us a sense of what makes us social, communicating beings. An ambitious undertaking of this sort might... teach us something about the factors that give rise to tribalism, which is so often associated with fear, hatred, and intolerance of outsiders. (Eric Kandel)
I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training. View quote
Kristanna Loken
As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.' View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it. View quote
Marion Cotillard
My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute. View quote
Adele
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn't want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over. View quote
Anthony Daniels
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. View quote
Denis Lavant
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were. View quote
Hannah Murray
... Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people. View quote
Laurie Notaro
I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience. (Doug Jones)
I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead. View quote
Vonda Shepard
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. View quote
Marcel Marceau
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. View quote
Wesley Snipes
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts. View quote
Steven Wright