Acting Quote by Bill Irwin

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

— Jean-Louis Barrault

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

— Ralph Richardson

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs…

— John Lithgow

“Replace the word "acting" with "doing," because even a clown is an excellent actor.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do…

— Hattie Morahan

The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to…

— George Takei

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got…

— Joseph Mawle

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

— Paul Giamatti

Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing…

— Masiela Lusha

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

— Shawnee Smith

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says,…

— Elizabeth Taylor

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

— Becky G