You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad. — Mark Pellegrino 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
It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“Bloody thou art, Bloody will be thy end William Shakespeare, Richard III” — John Paul Davis 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
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
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with… — Mark Strong 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
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did… — James Fenimore Cooper 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
You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in… — Robert Sean Leonard 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
A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Shakespeare villains were extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard III... They're so richly layered that a British actor would find it almost impossible to… — Ben Kingsley 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
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a… — Kurt Sutter 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
“Julius Caesar is an ambivalent study of civil conflict. As in Richard II, the play is structured around two protagonists rather than… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“It is hard to tell the story of Elizabeth of York without her farbetter-known husband, Henry VII, as the hero. Henry himself,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“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
“Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in… — Thomas More 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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 have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them.… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for… — Sean Maher Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
