Quotes from Ralph Richardson

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

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.

Just published Jeff Archer P.I. The Human Icicle . People compare it to Tom Clancy novels but shorter and more fun.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

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

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

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the 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.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

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.

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

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