Mime Quotes

43 quotes by 37 authors

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like… — Adele
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music.… — David Bowie
I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes. — Nick Harkaway
Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on — Jamy Ian Swiss
Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people. — Laurie Notaro
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible. — Marcel Marceau
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. — Marcel Marceau
A mime is a terrible thing to waste. — Marcel Marceau
Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities, — Marcel Marceau
I donâ€™t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture. — Karl Pilkington
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring… — Anthony Daniels
I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles,… — Stephen Fry
I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training. — Kristanna Loken
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe. — Kelly McGillis
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago. — Tom Bergeron
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. — Warwick Davis
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. — Denis Lavant
Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste. — Lev L. Spiro
That's actually kind of scary. Sex with a mime. Do I have to pay extra to make sure you don't do the trapped-in-a-box thing while… — Suzanne Brockmann
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be. — Jimmy Fallon

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