Lear Quote by Peter Ustinov

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

— David Ogden Stiers

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show…

— Fernando Pessoa

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

— Ashley Jensen

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that…

— Helen Mirren

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

— Robert Wilson

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

— Liam Neeson

The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

— Charlie Cox

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub…

— Roger Rees

I had a fabulous teacher, my headmistress's husband, who taught Shakespeare for A-level, and then I found this person called William Shakespeare and a…

— Geraldine James

When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the…

— Paul Bettany

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied,…

— Donna Murphy

You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every…

— Keira Knightley