Quotes About Shakespeare

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

Listen," Kate interrupted. "I am going to Italy to study Shakespeare , not to fall in love." The cell phone thrummed with silent disappointment. "In fact," she went on, "I consider myself lucky to have dated Jerome—" "Because you found the state of complete boredom restful?" Annie murmured.

They didn't seem to be learning anything about Shakespeare and, moreover, they were probably actively damaging relationships around the world.

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

Shakespeare has surface beneath surface to an immeasurable depth, adapted to the plummet-line of every reader; his works present many phases of truth, each with a scope large enough to fill a contemplative mind. Whatever you seek in him you will surely discover, provided you seek truth. There is no exhausting the various interpretations of his symbols, and a thousand years hence a world of new readers will possess a whole library of new books, as we ourselves do, in these volumes old already.

Stephen Hopkins was making his second trip to America. Eleven years earlier in 1609 he had sailed on the Sea Venture for Virginia, only to become shipwrecked in Bermudaan incident that became the basis for Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Mi ricordo che un giorno ricevetti una lettera furibonda da un tale il quale sosteneva che non avevo diritto di dire che Shakespeare non mi piace. Troppi giovani mi avrebbero creduto senza nemmeno darsi la pena di leggere Shakespeare. Non avevo diritto di affermare una cosa simile. E così via. Non gli ho mai risposto. Lo faccio adesso. Fottiti amico. E non mi piace nemmeno Tolstoj.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

In Shakespeare, the moral balances are very fine.

Phryne spent a blameless evening reading The Winter's Tale with Ruth, who was still convinced that Shakespeare could bear translation. 'Why does he take so long to say anything?' 'The Elizabethan stage had no scenes and only hand-props. His actors had to create the scene, as well as the action. Look how cleverly he has leafed the innocent conversation of the Queen and Polixenes with the King's own jealous thoughts. It works very well onstage, I promise. We

Whatever. I'm pretty sure Mercutio was a vampire. He had the attitude, you know? He just never got a chance to show his fangs.

Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn't havevampires in it? Abby: They write books with no vampires? Wait...the penguins made us read that Shakesrear guy, right? Teagan: Shakespeare.

This henbane was used, in this very manner, we are told, in Shakespeare's works, by Hamlet's uncle, when he poisoned Hamlet's father.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.