Acting Quote by Ralph Richardson Download Open image “Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.” — Ralph Richardson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Art Audience Coughing Entertainment
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. — Alfred Lunt Copy Share Image
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors. — Sonny Chiba Copy Share Image
Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating,… — Bruce Glover Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express… — Common Copy Share Image
“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
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
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be. — Kenny Wormald Copy Share
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly… — Laura Regan Copy Share
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image