Actors Quote by Montgomery Clift

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

— Clark Gregg

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

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I…

— Jessica Lange

I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he…

— Condola Rashad

“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.”

— Peter Saccio

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that…

— Stephen Greenblatt

As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.

— Nana Patekar

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

— Chris Sarandon

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act…

— Joan Hickson

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous…

— Steve Antin