You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale. — John Kani Copy Share Image
I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17. — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
People go to see Shakespeare plays over and over, not because the story is new, but because they want to see how… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books.… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' -… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur,… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
