Marcel Marceau

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost…

— Marcel Marceau

I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human - not fanatical, which is something…

— Marcel Marceau

All wars are criminal.

— Marcel Marceau

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

— Marcel Marceau

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

— Marcel Marceau

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the…

— Marcel Marceau

I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows.

— Marcel Marceau

I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings…

— Marcel Marceau

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

— Marcel Marceau

In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of…

— Marcel Marceau

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,

— Marcel Marceau

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

— Marcel Marceau

I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world.

— Marcel Marceau

When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When…

— Marcel Marceau

I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.

— Marcel Marceau

Silence is like a flame, you see?

— Marcel Marceau

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my…

— Marcel Marceau

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

— Marcel Marceau

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

— Marcel Marceau

Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a…

— Marcel Marceau

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

— Marcel Marceau

One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s…

— Marcel Marceau

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier…

— Marcel Marceau

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

— Marcel Marceau

Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow…

— Marcel Marceau