Browsing Topic Best Mime Quotes

Love is a jeering mime.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

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.

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.

I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight’s Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

Sometimes I wish I hadn’t said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies – as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead.

Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior’s horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

It’s interesting – a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I’m terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

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.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.

Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

To me, acting is acting… I’d be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

I was a mime. Im 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.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

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.

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.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

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.

This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

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.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?