Ralph Richardson Quotes

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

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

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.