We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst — William Shakespeare 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
The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business. — Bill Lear Copy Share Image
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the… — Julie White Copy Share Image
In 2008, I just decided that there will come a time when I am dead and gone, and I only have a… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
When I was 16, we moved to live in Stratford-Upon-Avon. That was the year of Paul Scofield's 'Lear.' I think he is… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
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
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam… — Steven-Elliot Altman Copy Share Image
Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that… — Nahnatchka Khan 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
I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!'… — Arjun Rampal 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
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Michael Moore's first big film "Roger & Me" has an extremely powerful scene in which a family in Flint, Michigan is evicted… — Solly Granatstein 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
When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I… — Hayden Panettiere 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
My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation… — Solly Granatstein Copy Share Image
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that. — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
