Ralph Richardson Quotes

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

  Ralph Richardson

  Witty, Art, People

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

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Speech

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

  Ralph Richardson

  Art, Acting, Entertainment

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• 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

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

  Ralph Richardson

  Running, Horse, Play

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• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  Ralph Richardson

  Dream, Acting, Ability

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

  Ralph Richardson

  No Excuses, Excuse, Supreme Being

  "Fictional character: Supreme Being". "Time Bandits", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• 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

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

  Ralph Richardson

  Art, Next Day, One Day

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• 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, Refrigerators

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  "Tynan on Richardson". The Observer Magazine, December 18, 1977.

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