In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must… — Terry Hands Copy Share Image
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. — Samira Wiley Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a… — Phil Daniels Copy Share Image
I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare… — Kevin Durand Copy Share Image
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
“If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.” She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I come from the world of theater, and I know Noel Coward's writing well. He has such a specific voice, and was… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare asked what’s in a name. Well, each of my clones won’t be named the same as me, but they’ll be me… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare taught me everything I know about love. Its vibrancy. How afterwards your life seems darker. And everything I know about power,… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage,… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked… — Greg Weisman Copy Share Image
People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“[T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree. — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest. " Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love… — Annette Bening 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
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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