Marcel Marceau

I wouldn't imagine I would become famous in America for my talk shows.

I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.

Today, my heart and soul lives peacefully for the hope that the 21st century will have to face a great challenge, a peaceful struggle for the enlightenment of humanity.

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

I have never been a victim of antisemitism - if you put to one side my war-time experience. That said, I am lucky not to have been sent into a concentration camp.

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

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 am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world.

I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human - not fanatical, which is something that I don't appreciate at all. I learned to become a humanist and not to dwell on the differences between Jews and Christians.

Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote.