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

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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.
Ralph Richardson

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson

The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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.
Ralph Richardson