Handle Quote by Helen Mirren

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

— Robert Wilson

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show…

— Fernando Pessoa

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same…

— Paul Scofield

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

— Liam Neeson

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

— Sam Neill

“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in this respect.…

— Ronald Carter

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have…

— Samuel Barnett

I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or ghosts, you…

— Gregory Doran

“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity…

— China Miéville

“It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies outside anybody's…

— Joanna Russ

“As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense…

— Christopher Hitchens