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Quotes About Mime

People like Little Mix... they've got a big lot of choreography that they need to do so it's difficult to sing and dance at the same time. I think if they've got to do a big performance with loads of visuals behind, they need to possibly mime at some point.
~ Jonas Blue
Mime doesn't always mean comedy, my dear; far from it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.
~ Eric McCormack
The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.
~ August Bournonville
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
~ Steven Wright
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
~ Steven Wright
My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
~ Marion Cotillard
Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.
~ Bob Saget
Since Divine is dead, the poet may sing her, may tell her legend, the Saga, the annals of Divine. The Divine Saga should be danced, mimed, with subtle directions. Since it is impossible to make a ballet of it, I am forced to use words that are weighed down with precise ideas, but I shall try to lighten them with expressions that are empty, hollow and invisible.
~ Jean Genet
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
~ Marcel Marceau
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
I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
~ Kristanna Loken
Shut up! We can't hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis
~ Don Winslow
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 to watch on its own.
~ Anthony Daniels
A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my best profession was a clown or a mime.
~ Michelle Wolf
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.
~ Doug Jones
I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
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~ Mark Helprin
I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
~ Peter Mayhew
Love is a jeering mime.
~ Kenneth Rand
I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world.
~ Marcel Marceau
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
~ Marcel Marceau