I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that. — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day. — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Playing Tuvok is a little like playing King Lear using only your eyebrows. — Tim Russ Copy Share Image
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can… — Helen Mirren 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
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet'… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Some days it seems I've done as much as I can here and I think I'll go and try my luck in… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process -… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my… — Ashley Jensen 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
“[Addams’s] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put… — Brian Boyd 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
“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
“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The… — Lev Grossman 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
In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and… — Keith Johnstone 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
“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name… — John D. Barrow 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
“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "He dies." That's all, nothing more.… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
“There may even be a real relation between certain kinds of effectiveness in literature and totalitarianism in politics. But although the fictions… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“Take the oft-repeated injunction to get “its” and “it’s” straight. Everyone claims it’s remarkably easy to remember that “its” is possessive and… — Kory Stamper 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
“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
“In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a certain amount of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Don’t be fooled by clever hands, sir” the Sunlight Man said. He’d be lying with the back of his head on his… — John Gardner 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
![“[Addams’s] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter Cordelia in Shakespeare’s play: an old set of values, predicated on individualism and paternalism, had run up against a new set of values, predicated on mutuality…” quote by Louis Menand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b4/louis-menand-8583_individualism_addams-s-idea-was-that-the-conflict-betw_2682941.jpg)
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