I'll never forget John Heard doing Shakespeare In The Park with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. It was 30 years ago, I… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
“Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was… — Eamonn Walker Copy Share Image
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“In Old English, thou ( thee, thine , etc.) was singular and you was plural. But during the thirteenth century, you started… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical… — Fleeming Jenkin Copy Share Image
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“He raised an eyebrow. "Where did you get this? Is our Anne Boleyn suddenly from Mars?" He chuckled. "I always thought she… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of… — Michael Clarke Duncan Copy Share Image
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well.… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity:… — Jennifer Lee Carrell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead. THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured… — Hillary DePiano Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Kneel not, gentle Portia. Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,… — William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture,… — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
![“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation, even insistence,for others to join him in the act of imagining...His reticence [to add stage directions] made his works wonderfully elastic. It…” quote by Jennifer Lee Carrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c91/jennifer-lee-carrell-46657_shakespeare_but-there-were-other-great-writers-who-h_2327616.jpg)
![“Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It…” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/773/al-pacino-1656_admire_many-years-ago-in-the-late-70s-i-toured_1525636.jpg)
