Biography
Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Died in Marylebone, London, England
Ralph Richardson Quotes
“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”
“Acting is the ability to dream on cue.”
“You’ve got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.”
“My idea of a director is a chap who puts me in the middle of a stage and shines a bright light on me.”
“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.”
“The most precious things in speech are pauses.”
