Ralph Richardson Quotes

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

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

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#3. Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

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

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#6. I always had the idea that when I was older I'd get frightfully clever. I'd get awfully learned, I'd get jolly sage. People would come to me for advice. But nobody comes to me for anything, and I don't know a bloody thing.

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#7. Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

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#8. The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

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

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. The most precious things in speech are pauses.

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