“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
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
“brain activity in a heartbeat. All of that says Richard. But the DNA in consort with the paper trail of a genealogy… — Adam Rutherford 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
Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's… — Ben Kingsley 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
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
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
“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
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
You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad. — Mark Pellegrino 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
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
“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
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
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
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