Actor Quote by Clive Thompson

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language…

— Kenneth Branagh

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

— Renee O'Connor

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

— Ralph Richardson

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I…

— Jessica Lange

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

— Woody Allen

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say…

— Robert Altman

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is.…

— Andre Holland

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another…

— Alan Arkin

The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made…

— Terry Teachout