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I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

Shakespeare writes such wonderful parts for women, parts that work so well today. I think he really liked women.

— Geraldine James

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one…

— Harriet Walter

I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

— Stephanie Beatriz

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

I look at my women with a Shakespearean element too - the variant of emotions they are capable of - it's not all completely…

— Miles Aldridge

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

— Maxine Peake

There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to…

— Phyllida Lloyd

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.”

— Gayle Forman

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

— Daniel Craig

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless,…

— Ellen Terry

Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.

— Cole Porter