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
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss 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
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. — William Shakespeare 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
One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.' — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
“When we are born, we cry that we are to come to this great stage of fools,’” I quoted from Shakespeare’s King… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
There's a particularly British way of going about things that I rather like, which is very different to the American way. It… — Roger Allam 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
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance,… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who… — Linda Sunshine 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
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
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
“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
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
![“In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada…” quote by Keith Johnstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/keith-johnstone-13430_accused_in-my-school-the-library-was-forbidden-i_2253645.png)
