默劇是用各種手勢作為表達的方式。雖然默劇可以表達一個想法、一種情感、一個故事，但默劇還是脫離不了文字。雖然如此，默劇還是絕不會用口語的表達方式，只能用身體表達這些慨念。例如：當一個演員指著另一位（意思是“你”），然後招招手示意（意思是“來”），隨即向自己面前的地板指一指（意思是“這裡”），整句就是：你來這裡。這雖然是文字敘述，但默劇演員卻是用肢體的動作傳達“文字”訊息。 他確實是演出了文字以外的。對默劇演員來說肢體的表達，只需要做出“示意”這件事就能達到目的，所以當默劇演員用肢體傳達：“你來這裡” 的時候，似乎比文字或用說的更簡潔易懂了。 如果一位男默劇演員想要對另一位女默劇演員傳達他愛她時，是不需要用口型說出“我愛你“這三個字，他只需指著自己（我），然後指著自己的心（愛），最後指向對方（妳）。 所以在默劇裡，他要傳達他的愛給她的時候，絕不是超出文字的敘述範圍的。
所以語言這件事，若你是只用口型不發出聲的說”我愛你“或是”I love you“，也許在一些國家，他們會看得懂，但在不是說這兩種語言的國家裡，可能就不懂你的意思了。但是我們今天用肢體傳達”我愛你“時，我相信在世界、在這個星球上，任何地方的人都會看得懂的。
THE LANGUAGE OF MIME
Mime (or pantomime, the words mean the same thing) is communication by gesture. It can be communication of an idea, an emotion, a story, but it is never the acting out of words. It should not even use verbal concepts, only physical concepts. For instance, if an actor points to another actor (signifying “you"). and then beckons (signifying “come"), and then points to the ground in front of him (signifying “here’), he is behaving verbally. He is literally acting out words. For him to communicate physically, all he need do is beckon, which tells the “you, come here" story more economically. If an actor wants to communicate to an actress that he loves her, he must neither mouth the words “I love you," nor would he point to himself (“I"), point to his heart (“love"), point to her (“you"). As a mime, he would communicate his love by the way he looks at her and behaves toward her, not by acting out words. The language of the mime must be universal so that practically anybody on this planet can understand his story. Mouthing the words “I love you" would not be understood in France or China, but a look of love, and behavior and responses with the feeling of love in it would be understood anywhere.
Julien's Art Works 