Quotes by Marcel Marceau

"To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man."

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"It's good to shut up sometimes."

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"In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity."

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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."

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