Lear Quotes

44 quotes by 38 authors

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding. — Peter Ackroyd
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. — David Crystal
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then,… — Derek Jacobi
I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to… — Hunter S. Thompson
I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear'… — Arjun Rampal
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of… — George Steiner
I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish… — Gilbert Gottfried
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff… — Helen Mirren
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor,… — Suzanne Weyn
O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself — William Shakespeare
What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said… — Christopher Moore
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst. — William Shakespeare
Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio â€“ they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to… — Walter de La Mare
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the… — William Shakespeare
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny
Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. — William Shakespeare

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