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

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Ralph Richardson

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

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

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The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

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Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

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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 the flower. It is the same with the man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern His presence.

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Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

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