Mime Quotes

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  • 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.

    Eye   Years   Paris  
  • 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.

    "A Q&A with Anthony Daniels (C3PO), touring with 'Star Wars: In Concert'". Interview with Tom Keogh, www.seattletimes.com. October 12, 2009.
  • If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

    Fall   Tree   Noise  
  • I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

    Narrators   Used   Mime  
  • To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

    Acting   Troupe   Streets  
  • To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

    US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.
  • I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

    Heaven   Hell   Mime  
  • Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

    "Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools". Book by Betty McDavid and Lucy Gregor Brown, 1978.
  • Love is a jeering mime.

    Love   Love Is   Jeering  
    Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”
  • I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

  • There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these different characters. That's what's exciting about this show [X-men], is the unusual casting.

    Moving   Character   Men  
    Source: www.ign.com
  • I've always liked walking; that's one of my favorite things to do, and I try to walk every day. [In Washington, D.C.] I can't walk outside, but we have the treadmill. And I walked eight miles at the ranch last weekend. Now I also lift weights, which is also great for bone strength. [Mrs. Bush mimes a biceps curl and laughs.] I'm very, very strong, actually.

    Strong   Weekend   Eight  
    "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.
  • If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?

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

    Radio   Odd   Program  
    Mark Lewisohn (2013). “Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years”, p.726, Crown Archetype
  • When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

    Bird   Deaf   Used  
    Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion
  • I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of 'Bringing Out the Dead' and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.

    Fall   Past   Ideas  
    "Nicolas Cage: 'I Want To Keep Romance and Passion Alive in Myself'". Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. November 10, 2009.
  • A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing [mimes steering wheel]? This steers it'

    Feet   Car   Wheels  
  • Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

    Twitter post from Oct 16, 2011
  • 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.

  • That's actually kind of scary. Sex with a mime. Do I have to pay extra to make sure you don't do the trapped-in-a-box thing while we're doing it?

    Sex   Scary   Pay  
    Suzanne Brockmann (2014). “Do or Die: Reluctant Heroes”, p.271, Ballantine Books
  • I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

    Party   Mushrooms   Rays  
    Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.78, Soho Press
  • Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

  • In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

    Skills   Needs   Body  
    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 07, 2001.
  • 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.

    Australia   Bird   Kind  
    "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.
  • Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

    Moving   Said   Mime  
  • 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.

  • I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

    "Tom Bergeron: Emmy Winner On How He’s Stayed Sane In Hollywood". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.
  • A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

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

    Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.77, Macmillan
  • (From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.

    Hurt   Perfect   Annoyed  
    Peter Carey (1994). “Collected stories”
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