“Anyone wanting to get a sense of human nature in, say, the Bronze Age can do no better than to excavate among… — David P. Barash Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect.… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my… — William Moseley Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“For example, nowadays Shakespeare is identified with all that is lofty and high brown about culture. However, on May 10, 1849, what… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
“Miss Rasputin, what a delight to finally meet you,” said the vamp, speaking with only the faintest hint of an accent. “Let’s… — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image
I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
“The time approaches That will with due decision make us know What we shall say we have and what we owe. Thoughts… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare,… — Thomas Ian Griffith Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Neither,... Romea or Zorro or Shakespeare ... could talk like YOUR talk .. could love like YOUR love .. Non of them… — Farah Qaryouti Copy Share Image
“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night” Shakespeare -- Sonnet… — J.T. Hunter Copy Share Image
I did Shakespeare with teenagers in Harlesden, and it transformed them. I did it with prisoners in Brixton and it inspired them… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also… — John Cullum Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new,… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody… — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage,… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
