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

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Source : New York Herald Tribune 19 May 1946, pt. 5, p. 1

Ralph Richardson

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Acting Quotes

“How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?”
“It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.”
“All there is responds to a word of praise. God responds. We respond. Everything responds. The whole world sparkles, quivers, comes alive. Things vibrate and are quickened. We vibrate and are quickened. Heaven and earth are in tune with us, and we are in tune with them. When we give praise, everything wants to give in return.”
“Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!”
“To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”
“The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.”
“Karate-Do is a lifetime study”
“Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.”

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