Quotes about Mime

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. Votes: 4

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago. Votes: 4

If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer? Votes: 4

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? Votes: 4

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training. Votes: 4

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. Votes: 4

To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe. Votes: 4

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities, Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A mime is a terrible thing to waste. Votes: 2

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes. Votes: 2

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime. Votes: 2

A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible. Votes: 2

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. Votes: 2

I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead. Votes: 2

Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste. Votes: 2

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. Votes: 2

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that. Votes: 2

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime. Votes: 2

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it. Votes: 2

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime. Votes: 2

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead. Votes: 2

I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Love is a jeering mime. Votes: 0

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime. Votes: 0

The statue stood quiet and still, like the silhouette of a tired mime. Votes: 0

This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio. Votes: 0

Yoga, unlike dance or mime, is not an expression of form for others to watch. Votes: 0

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts. Votes: 0

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? Votes: 0

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills." Votes: 0

I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture. Votes: 0

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent. Votes: 0

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0