Quotes by Marcel Marceau

• Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
• To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
• In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
• I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
• Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
• Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
• What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
• It's good to shut up sometimes.
• Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.