21 Quotes by Ralph Richardson

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

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

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

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

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

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

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

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