Mime Quotes · Page 2

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

— Denis Lavant

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

— Kelly McGillis

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

— Mark Lewisohn

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

— 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

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

— Peter Carey

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a…

— Brandon Sanderson

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls…

— Bret Easton Ellis

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 studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

— Tom Bergeron

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

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

— Ben Hecht

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around…

— Adele

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

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

— Bob Saget

I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as…

— Annaleigh Ashford

I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

— Karl Pilkington

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

— Wesley Snipes

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

— Steven Wright

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

— Steven Wright

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

— Jess Walter

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on

— Jamy Ian Swiss

Love is a jeering mime.

— Kenneth Rand

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

— Gary Larson