“I don't like using the word evil because it sounds as if that's all there is to be said about the person.… — Ian McKellan Copy Share Image
It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York. — John David Washington Copy Share Image
'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“I’m having my lunch when I hear a familiar hoarse shout, ‘Oy Tony!’ I whip round, damaging my neck further, to see… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed… — Leanda de Lisle Copy Share Image
The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I went to a Jesuit school and they did a William Shakespeare play every year. I got to know Shakespeare as parts… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
“Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle… — Varlam Shalamov Copy Share Image
“Politics seems to require a morality quite apart from that of personal life, posing a tragic dilemma for Brutus as for Richard… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“Richard III was the last English monarch to die in battle. Shakespeare gave him the words that made him immortal: “My kingdom… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. — Ted Lange 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
Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
“What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')” — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Before the times of change, still is it so: By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers; as by proof, we… — Annelie Wendeberg Copy Share Image
“An interesting footnote to the centuries of accusations that have swirled around Richard III and the disappearance of his nephews took place… — Daniel Diehl Copy Share Image
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