“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… — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he… — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have… — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
