Marcel Marceau

Actor

1923-03-22

Books by Marcel Marceau

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Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.
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In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity.
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I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows.
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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.
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Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct.
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