Mime Quotes

“MIME viewer is launched”

— Anonymous

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

— Marcel Marceau

This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

— Mark Lewisohn

“Obviously, I'm going to have to learn to speak mime if this friendship is going to work.”

— Anya Allan

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

— Warwick Davis

Mime is in our daily life and with little effort, we can all perfect the art form.

— Tanikella Bharani

I'm not one of them who will get up and mime - I want to completely perform.

— Megan McKenna

I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.

— Vonda Shepard

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

— Nick Harkaway

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

— Robin Wright

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street…

— Denis Lavant

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I…

— Wesley Snipes

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be…

— Marcel Marceau

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of…

— August Bournonville

Top Of The Pops' was the show to be on. Youd go in in the afternoon, re-record the track for them, and…

— Mike Campbell

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me…

— David Bowie

“There’s a mime convention this weekend, so things should be pretty quiet around town. It’s possible that your pubic hair makes me…

— Jarod Kintz

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

— Marion Cotillard

I've always liked walking; that's one of my favorite things to do, and I try to walk every day. [In Washington, D.C.]…

— Laura Bush

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in…

— Jessica Lange

In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts…

— Signe Baumane

(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he…

— Peter Carey

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of…

— Peter Coyote

A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is…

— Steven Wright

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers…

— Ben Hecht

I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing…

— Hannah Murray

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and…

— Steven Morrissey

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

— Steven Wright

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

— Bob Saget

“For a deaf man, the world is a zoo of mime artists”

— A.A. Bell

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

— Marcel Marceau

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

— Kelly McGillis

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

— Jess Walter

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

— Tom Bergeron

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,

— Marcel Marceau

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

— Graham Chapman

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

— Steven Wright

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on

— Jamy Ian Swiss

If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?

— Steven Wright

A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.

— Marcel Marceau