Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop. — Marcel Marceau

"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."

"Perhaps true appreciation of Marceau requires a step back in time. Before Marceau broke out of an invisible box and stepped into millions of Americans living rooms on Max Liebmans "Show of Shows" nearly 40 years ago, you could fit the number of people who knew or much less cared anything about the art of pantomime in a Citroen. What we know of mime — the mute theatrics, the exaggerated body language, the requisite black-and-white get-up — was essentially minted by Marceau. … When Marceau is gone, we wont say, "There goes one of the worlds greatest mimes," but "There goes the worlds great mime."

"Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible."

"Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?"

"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."