Top 68 Mime Quotes
#1. My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
Marion Cotillard
#2. When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
Gary Numan
#3. 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
#4. Mum's always hinting I should ask him out, but when a girl finds talking as hard as I do and singing in public even harder, that leaves mime and interpretative dance. Don't get me wrong. I'd be great at both those things, but I don't think Dave's all that into the arts.
Cath Crowley
#5. Danny was a matador. Other cast members included a chubby Italian chef, a mime, and, for some reason, a mummy. I found that offensive on behalf of living Egyptian people, but I also knew that Parker McHune's mother couldn't sew, so wrapping her son in Ace bandages was the best she could do.
Molly Harper
#6. In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
Warwick Davis
#7. For a deaf man, the world is a zoo of mime artists
A.A. Bell
#8. I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
Wesley Snipes
#9. When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.
Peter Coyote
#11. If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
Steven Wright
#12. If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?
Gary Larson
#13. Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.
Marcel Marceau
#14. I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
Vonda Shepard
#15. What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
Marcel Marceau
#16. 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
#17. Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
Steven Wright
#18. Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.
Bob Saget
#20. You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.
Shirley Jump
#21. Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.
Lev L. Spiro
#22. All existence for a man turned away from the eternal is but a vast mime under the mask of the absurd. Creation is the great mime ... it is itself an absurd phenomenon.
Albert Camus
#23. I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime.
Sara Sheridan
#24. If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?
Brad Warner
#25. Ethan Figman, thick bodied, unusually ugly, his features appearing a little bit flattened, as if pressed against a mime's invisible glass wall, sat with his mouth slack and a record album in his lap.
Meg Wolitzer
#26. 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
#27. Weather you scream or mime , im going going to those lips with cream.
Albert Malete
#28. The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.
David Toop
#29. The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.
Keith Johnstone
#30. I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
Kristanna Loken
#31. 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
#32. Was asking what the difference was between mime and pantomime and no one would say.
Garrison Keillor
#33. My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele
#34. Love is communicating. I'm sorry, mime, but I only lust you.
Jarod Kintz
#35. A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
Marcel Marceau
#36. I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
Tom Bergeron
#37. 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
#38. I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.
Robin Wright
#39. 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
#40. If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.
Jess Walter
#41. 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
#42. To me, acting is acting ... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
Kelly McGillis
#43. I don't understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.
Karl Pilkington
#44. This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.
Mark Lewisohn
#45. In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.
Signe Baumane
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
Denis Lavant
#49. But here I was,quasi-boyfriend saying he wanted to take me on an actual date, and I was just staring at him impassively, like a horse watching a mime pretending to walk against the wind.
Maureen Johnson
#50. 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
#51. If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?
Steven Wright
#52. Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,
Marcel Marceau
#53. When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.
Graham Chapman
#54. Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic.
Alexander Theroux
#55. I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
David Bowie
#56. I flunked out of mime school. I could never hear what the instructor was saying!!!
Neil Leckman
#57. I don't know why I'm second-guessing Crevan's sanity - I'm sitting here talking to a hedgehog mime.
T. Kingfisher
#58. I spotted Dray standing to one side of the room and made my way to him. A mime accosted me along the way, but I did my best Russian-accented English and said, "In my country, we shoot mimes on the spot." The poor guy blanched beneath his white make up and backed away.
Kate Evangelista
#60. 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
#61. I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
Vonda Shepard
#62. Isn't it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart.
Samantha Shannon
#65. Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always.
Samantha Shannon
#66. Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice.
Samantha Shannon
#67. Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.
Samantha Shannon
#68. Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.
Samantha Shannon
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