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

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

- Ralph Richardson

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

- Ralph Richardson

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

- 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 hav…

- Ralph Richardson

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

- 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 is wrong. The defect is in him, not…

- Ralph Richardson

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

- Ralph Richardson

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

- Ralph Richardson