I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie.
When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
One of the things I've found about SpongeBob's movement style is that, in addition to being animated and sort of stretching and squeezing, he's really based on the classic silent comedians, physical comedians.
There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.
