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Marcel Marceau

All wars are criminal.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human – not fanatical, which is something that I don’t appreciate at all. I learned to become a humanist and not to dwell on the differences between Jews and Christians.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a peaceful struggle for the enlightenment of humanity.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

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.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

There is only one Marceau.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

I wouldn’t imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Silence in the turmoil of the theater world made me survive 50 years without speaking on a stage, only to say ‘No’ in Mel Brooks’ film, ‘Silent Movie.’

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

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.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.

– Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

I don’t want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.

– Marcel Marceau

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