Cinema Quote by Laurence Olivier

Richard II is my dream part.

— Josh O'Connor

Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far…

— Beau Willimon

I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.

— John David Washington

The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the…

— Kevin Spacey

The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and…

— Peter Ackroyd

'3' is a wonderful film.

— Anirudh Ravichander

Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

— Hector Elizondo

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of…

— Kurt Sutter

I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.

— Robert Zemeckis

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of…

— Michael Gambon

Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film…

— James Patterson

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr.…

— Deborah Harkness