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.
“Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.”
“When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.”