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1923–2007 France
Marcel Mangel (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007), more famous by his stage name Marcel Marceau, was a French entertainer, the world's most famous mime.
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.
Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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.
Silence is like a flame, you see?
Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me.
No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
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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