Rudi, my very great acting teacher at Bristol Old Vic, said many wonderful things about acting.

Here are a very, very few:

Acting is the gentle art of living - (later he would add 'the gentle art of living together')

Everyone is an actor - we just call it 'good manners'

Acting is the art of reacting

Acting is playing -that's why you're called players

You spell 'art' with a capital F