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Quotes About Mime

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?
~ Brad Warner
They burn down Satanist churches, perform exorcisms on politicians, and they once crucified a street mime. Upside down. And then they set fire to him. A lot of people applauded.
~ Simon R. Green
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
~ Warwick Davis
New Rule: The sad mime at every protest has to give it a rest. One sign you're a major annoyance: when you haven't said anything and I still want to tell you to shut the fuck up.
~ Bill Maher
If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?
~ Brad Warner
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
It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*... [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh's crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.
~ Terry Pratchett
If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?
~ Gary Larson
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
~ Steven Wright
I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
~ Vonda Shepard
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
I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.
~ Nadine Coyle
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
I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it.
~ Rob McClure
I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
~ lagerfeld karl ii
what you would get if you ran a mime over with a steamroller? A silent film.
~ James Patterson
I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
~ Kerry Bishe
Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.
~ Laurie Notaro
Don't anyone move. . . I think we've driven into a mimefield.
~ Jasper Fforde
If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.
~ Jess Walter
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
~ Tom Bergeron
I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.
~ Stephen Fry
Nothing?Micheal!You're 'playing'!.IN PUBLIC? 'That's new?' Claire whisperd to shhane 'He hasn't played anywhere but our living room since-Teeth-in-neck mime 'You know Oliver' 'Oh.' micheal's face was turning pink.'just put it back,OK?It's no big deal! Eve kissed him.
~ Rachel Caine
Rhyme?" she said. "Is it a crime to talk in rhyme? I'd rather mime, but that takes more time.
~ Dan Gutman