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> [You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/you-ve-got-to-perform-in-a-role-hundreds-of-times-in-keeping-it-fresh/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

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## More by Ralph Richardson

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/i-always-had-the-idea-that-when-i-was-older-i-d-get-frightfully/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [Dead? No excuse for laying off work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/dead-no-excuse-for-laying-off-work/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/acting-is-merely-the-art-of-keeping-a-large-group-of-people-from/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/actors-are-the-jockeys-of-literature-others-supply-the-horses-the/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/you-ve-got-to-perform-in-a-role-hundreds-of-times-in-keeping-it-fresh/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/if-a-man-without-a-sense-of-smell-declared-that-this-yellow-rose-that/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [The most precious things in speech are pauses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/the-most-precious-things-in-speech-are-pauses/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [Acting is the ability to dream on cue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/acting-is-the-ability-to-dream-on-cue/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/acting-is-a-strange-business-one-day-it-s-there-and-the-next-day/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/i-like-talking-to-engineers-best-they-built-bridges-they-re-very/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/acting-an-art-which-consists-of-keeping-the-audience-from-coughing/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/in-music-the-punctuation-is-absolutely-strict-the-bars-and-rests-are/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

> [The most precious things in speech are the pauses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-richardson/the-most-precious-things-in-speech-are-the-pauses/)

[Ralph Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-richardson/)

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