Ralph Richardson famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Art #People #Acting
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Teaching #Parenting #Speech
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Art #Acting #Coughing
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Science #Talking #Bridges
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Art #One Day #Acting
Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Running #Horse #Play
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Air #Roles #Humming
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Bars #Punctuation #Score
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Dream #Acting #Ability
If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he is wrong. The defect is in him, not the flower. It is the same with the man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern His presence.
-- Ralph Richardson

#Flower #Mean #Men
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
-- Ralph Richardson

#No Excuses #Excuse #Supreme Being

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