Any Quote by Ian Mckellen

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it…

— Ian Mckellen

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is…

— Al Pacino

I like Shakespeare, but it's not my bread and butter. It's not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of the ingenue…

— Phoebe Fox

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three…

— Al Pacino

The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and…

— Matt Damon

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

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other…

— Lytton Strachey

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think…

— Alan Cumming

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I…

— Judy Davis

There are a lot of pros to doing a film, as far as it helping your film career, and it is completely different financially.…

— Jimmi Simpson

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

— Campbell Scott