With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
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… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human - not fanatical, which is something that I… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations.… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot.… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
