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A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
Marcel Marceau / Actor
Mime
Terrible
Waste
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I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.
Steven Wright / Comedian
Mime
Narrators
Used
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Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
Marcel Marceau / Actor
Advice
Mime
Talking
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If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?
Steven Wright / Comedian
Mime
Needs
Use
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I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
Tom Bergeron / Television Personality
Mime
Taught
Years
Years Ago
Performed
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Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.
Marcel Marceau / Actor
Borders
Knows
Mime
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If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
Steven Wright / Comedian
Funny
Humor
Mime
Use
Shoot
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Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
Marcel Marceau / Actor
Invisible
Magician
Mime
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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
Nick Harkaway / Novelist
Heaven
Hell
Mime
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I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
Kristanna Loken / Actress
Mime
Training
Weapons
Weight
Coach
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I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
Vonda Shepard /
Bohemian
Mime
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I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
Vonda Shepard /
Mime
Juggler
Singer Songwriter
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Mime is in our daily life and with little effort, we can all perfect the art form.
Tanikella Bharani /
Daily Life
Mime
Life Art Daily
Art Form
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To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
Kelly Mcgillis / Film Actress
Acting
Mime
Streets
Troupe
Be Happy
Corner
Street Corner
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Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.
Lev L. Spiro / Film Director
Mime
Rumor
Waste
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Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
Jasper Fforde / Novelist
Mime
Moving
Said
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I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.
Robin Wright / Actress
Mime
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What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
Marcel Marceau / Actor
Attitude
Essence
Important
Mime
Represent
Gesture
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I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.
Karl Pilkington / Television Personality
Looks
Mime
People
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If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
Gad Elmaleh /
Bombing
Mime
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Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.
Eric Mccormack / Actor
Mime
Notre Dame
Surreal
Dame
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Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
Marcel Marceau / Actor
Truth
Mime
Words
Truth Art Lie
Beyond
Show
Cannot
Essential
Lie
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My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
Marion Cotillard / Actress
Mime
Plays
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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.
Nadine Coyle / Singer-Songwriter
Ireland
Mime
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Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
Denis Lavant / Film Actor
Dancer
Expression
Firsts
Mime
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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 / Actor
Dance
Air
Mime
Slow Motion
Floor
Motion
Perhaps
Slow
Spanish
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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.
Marcel Marceau / Actor
Mime
Not Perfect
Percent
Author
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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
David Bowie / Musician
Important
Instance
Mime
Numbers
Theatre
Music Me Important
Apart
Number
Profess
Wheel
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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.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Mime
Real
Real Life
Technique
Watches
Gesture
Uses
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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.
Gary Numan / Singer
Massive
Mime
Houses
Monkees
So-Called
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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.
Kerry Bishe / Film Actress
Chicago
Mime
Northwestern
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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 / Actor
Grammar
Mime
Taught
Art Me Style
Brings
Creations
Master
Survives
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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.
Wesley Snipes / Actor
College
Competition
Festivals
Florida
Involved
Mime
Musical
Theatre
Puppet
Competitions
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Old School
Mime
Mute
Naughty
Nine
School
Self Esteem
Silence
Victorian
Voice
Days
Corner
Tap
Off
Recently
Sit
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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.
Bob Saget / Comedian
Famous
Hate
Mime
Offensive
Talent
Writer
Actor
Wanna
Word
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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.
Michelle Wolf /
Aptitude
Clown
Comedian
Mime
Profession
Grade
Seventh
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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.
Doug Jones /
Communication
Acting
Body
College
Emotion
Indiana
Mime
Portraying
University
Ball
Neck
Event
Learned
Realize
State University
Woke
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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.
Jonas Blue /
Choreography
Mime
Visuals
Time People Difficult
Time Difficult People
Loads
Mix
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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.
Peter Coyote / Actor
Creative
Creative Writing
Mime
San Francisco
Troupe
Actor
Audition
Drove
Master
Rest
Francisco
Saw
Joined
San
Workshop
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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.
Hannah Murray / Actress
Broken
Fixing
Imaginary
Mime
Office
Seconds
Surgery
Animals
Bear
Friend
Illnesses
Injuries
Leg
My Friend
Removing
Tumor
Vet
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I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.
Stephen Colbert / Satirist
Changing The World
Chicago
Concerned
Mime
Satire
Second City
Social
Theater
Did
Work Character World
Changing
City
Generally
Off
Improvisational
Second
Silliest
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