“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
I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear. — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
“It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies… — Joanna Russ 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
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
“He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such… — H. L. Mencken 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
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great,… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. — Simon Callow 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
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss 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
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of… — Andrew Coyle Bradley 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
“He got up. It was too early to go to bed; at least, he was not in the mood for it. He… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
“As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
