Top 69 Mime Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?

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.

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.

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.

Yoga, unlike dance or mime, is not an expression of form for others to watch.

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

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

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.

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

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

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.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

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.

Love is a jeering mime.

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.

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

I'm not one of them who will get up and mime - I want to completely perform.

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.

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.

I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.

Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

Mime is in our daily life and with little effort, we can all perfect the art form.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

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.

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

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

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

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?

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

Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.

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.

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.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

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.