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A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
Mime is in our daily life and with little effort, we can all perfect the art form.
To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.
Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.
If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
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.
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.