If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball… — Virginia Wade Copy Share Image
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as… — Harold Clarke Goddard 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
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more.… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away.… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
“It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty. “Why is it important?” Because when you read about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“You all remember,” said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, “you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
