Ralph Richardson

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

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.