Words matter. These are the best Mime Quotes from famous people such as Marion Cotillard, Gary Numan, Nadine Coyle, Marcel Marceau, Steven Wright, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
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.
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.
When you’re in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m not one of them who will get up and mime – I want to completely perform.
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.
I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That’s the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn’t mean you’re a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.
I really loved animals when I was little – my friend and I had an imaginary vet’s office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses – fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that’s how good we were.
I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
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.
Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.
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.
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.
Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.
I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
