Ralph Richardson Quotes
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I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
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Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information
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The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.
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Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.
