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
The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business. — Bill Lear Copy Share Image
Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. — 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
We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst — William Shakespeare 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
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
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
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch… — William Shakespeare 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
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 think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
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
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your… — Derek Jacobi 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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