Ralph Richardson Quotes

#1. I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

Charles Dance

#2. I've worked with the old dames and knights - Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson - they're the most incredibly humble, kindly people because they are so big that they don't need to be unpleasant.

Ron Moody

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

Ralph Richardson

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

Ralph Richardson

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

Kristen Schaal

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

Ralph Richardson

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

Ralph Richardson

#10. I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#11. I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

Scott Speedman

#12. 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.

Ralph Richardson

#13. That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something - they shamed her.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Hans Frank

#15. Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.

Robert Adams

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

Ralph Richardson

#17. It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes ... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.

Adam Schlesinger

#18. How did he get here? What drew him back? Easy answer: the monkey bars. Not-so-easy answer ... What took him away in the first place? Gyroscopic deflections are only partly to blame. Who can stop a revolving planet? Who can predict where on the table a spinning quarter will fall flat?

Jay Nichols

#19. The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ralph Richardson

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

Ralph Richardson

#22. The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

Simon Armitage

#23. The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

Sheila Jackson Lee

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

Ralph Richardson

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

Ralph Richardson