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.
Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
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.
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
Silence is like a flame, you see?
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.