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Ralph Richardson Quotes

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

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

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, Entertainment

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

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Ralph Richardson
Dream, Acting, Ability
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Ralph Richardson
Running, Horse, Play

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Ralph Richardson
No Excuses, Excuse, Supreme Being
"Fictional character: Supreme Being". "Time Bandits", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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, Next Day, One Day

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.

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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