Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion. Marcel Marceau More Quotes by Marcel Marceau More Quotes From Marcel Marceau Embed quoteadd to favoritesshare this quote. Marcel Marceau Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words Marcel Marceau I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. Marcel Marceau Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth. Marcel Marceau wordsyoutruthart I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives. Marcel Marceau newmestyleart The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day. Marcel Marceau dreamsdaylifedeath In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity. Marcel Marceau facetraditionhumanityromantic When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing. Marcel Marceau nothingyounot-perfectgenius I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world. Marcel Marceau i-ammyselfbibleworld I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human - not fanatical, which is something that I don't appreciate at all. I learned to become a humanist and not to dwell on the differences between Jews and Christians. Marcel Marceau somethingappreciatedifferenceshome There is only one Marceau. Marcel Marceau only I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul. Marcel Marceau roomyouthsoulwant I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows. Marcel Marceau famousbecometalkamerica Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote. Marcel Marceau ourherotimeromantic Silence in the turmoil of the theater world made me survive 50 years without speaking on a stage, only to say 'No' in Mel Brooks' film, 'Silent Movie.' Marcel Marceau survivemesilenceworld With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life. Marcel Marceau liontimelifeart Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a peaceful struggle for the enlightenment of humanity. Marcel Marceau soulhopehearttoday I have never been a victim of antisemitism - if you put to one side my war-time experience. That said, I am lucky not to have been sent into a concentration camp. Marcel Marceau i-amneveryouexperience All wars are criminal. Marcel Marceau warscriminal
