You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
I'd love to do Shakespeare. I've been asked to do Malvolio but for one reason or another haven't been able. On a… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a… — Ken Ludwig Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West… — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 2] If someone wants to laugh at you, you have every right to make fun… — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a… — Zach Gilford Copy Share Image
It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior. And I think… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare.… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Weve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think every New York actor's dream is to do Shakespeare in the Park. Each show is so special and unique and… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare,… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
Im not Shakespeare to write about U, I Am Not Shelley To Sing About U, I Am Not Piccasso To Paint u,… — Kaceem Madridista Copy Share Image
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“Hark,” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?” Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
When I was 14 I was really taciturn - I hardly said a word - but then I auditioned for Shylock. With… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?” — Lenore Look Copy Share Image
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game.… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image