Quotes from Marcel Marceau

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.

Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote.

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.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

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

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

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

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.