A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West… — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
“Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 2] If someone wants to laugh at you, you have every right to make fun… — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a… — Ken Ludwig Copy Share Image
I'd love to do Shakespeare. I've been asked to do Malvolio but for one reason or another haven't been able. On a… — Les Dennis Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
“And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Juliet: I will be thy chased rose and take thy name. My heart will continue drumming its love for you the same;… — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' -… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
“Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I said ”I love you so much it’s killing me” and you kept saying sorry so I stopped explaining for it never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of… — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
![“Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 2] If someone wants to laugh at you, you have every right to make fun of him; If someone wants to act with you, you have every right to play with his emotions; If someone wants to irritate you, you have every right to stress him; If someone wants to hate you…” quote by P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3a/p-s-jagadeesh-kumar-1750_attitude-quotes_not-for-fun-why-so-hilarious-part-2-if-s_2439580.jpg)
![“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/107/virginia-woolf-49_androgyny_all-who-have-brought-about-a-state-of-se_2271608.jpg)
![“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures — an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/mark-twain-22_eiffel-tower_all-the-rest-of-shakespeare-s-vast-histo_2232027.png)
![“[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.” quote by Laurence Olivier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/756/laurence-olivier-11163_actors_on-whether-he-harbored-any-resentment-at_368719.png)
![“I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published…” quote by Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e10/marilynne-robinson-602_england_i-had-been-reading-about-john-calvin-for_671043.png)
