Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceauwas a French actor and mime most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years. As a youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth22 March 1923
CityStrasbourg, France
CountryFrance
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
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.
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
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.
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
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.