Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

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

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

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.

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.

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

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

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

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

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

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don't know why you're sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes.

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think.

Never forget a customer. Never let a customer forget you

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.