Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them. Marcel Marceau More Quotes by Marcel Marceau More Quotes From 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 words you truth art 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 new me style art The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day. Marcel Marceau dreams day life death 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 face tradition humanity romantic 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 nothing you not-perfect genius I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world. Marcel Marceau i-am myself bible world 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 something appreciate differences home 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 slow like difficult dance 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 room youth soul want I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows. Marcel Marceau famous become talk america Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote. Marcel Marceau our hero time romantic 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 survive me silence world 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 lion time life art 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 soul hope heart today 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-am never you experience All wars are criminal. Marcel Marceau wars criminal