Mime Quotes · Page 2

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

— Marion Cotillard

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

— Bob Saget

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

— Jess Walter

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody…

— Christopher Walken

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it…

— Anthony Daniels

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must…

— Jimmy Fallon

I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a…

— Kerry Bishe

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

Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16…

— Julie Taymor

The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record…

— David Toop

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

— Adele

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 be a narrator for bad mimes.

— Steven Wright

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

— Kristanna Loken

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

— Marcel Marceau

Yoga, unlike dance or mime, is not an expression of form for others to watch.

— T. K. V. Desikachar

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.

— Vonda Shepard

Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin…

— Marcel Marceau

That's actually kind of scary. Sex with a mime. Do I have to pay extra to make sure you don't do the…

— Suzanne Brockmann

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

— Marcel Marceau

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that…

— Laurie Notaro

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

— Gary Larson

Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

— Lev L. Spiro

There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street…

— Gary Numan

I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck…

— Doug Jones

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him…

— Philip K. Dick

Nothing?Micheal!You're 'playing'!.IN PUBLIC? 'That's new?' Claire whisperd to shhane 'He hasn't played anywhere but our living room since-Teeth-in-neck mime 'You know Oliver'…

— Rachel Caine

I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep…

— Stephen Fry

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

— Jasper Fforde