Family Quote by Mel Giedroyc

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of…

— Al Pacino

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

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

— Josephine Hull

“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party…

— Glen Duncan

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of…

— Al Pacino

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

— Charles Darwin

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor,…

— Zoe Wanamaker

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

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

— Lenny Henry

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.

— Michael Rosen

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other…

— Joss Whedon

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

— Joan Collins