Marcel Marceau Quotes
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
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Silence is like a flame, you see?
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Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
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Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
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Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.
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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
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Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.
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Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform 'The Creation of the World' and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of 'Good and Evil', then God enters in me.
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
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Non!