Ralph Richardson

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

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.