Beautiful Quote by Prunella Scales

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 loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

— Blythe Danner

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

— Maxine Peake

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be…

— Lucy Punch

I like Shakespeare, but it's not my bread and butter. It's not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of the ingenue…

— Phoebe Fox

Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different…

— Andrea Riseborough

One of my favourite pieces is 'Antony and Cleopatra' - I'd love to be in that. Or an alternative version of 'Romeo & Juliet'…

— Cynthia Erivo

What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular,…

— Charles Baudelaire

I love some of the contemporary female roles that have been written in films. I loved all the characters in American Beauty and Shakespeare…

— Gillian Anderson

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out.…

— Ian Mckellen

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

— Meryl Streep

I was definitely in acting class in school, but I was never the princess of the play. I will always remember: they always gave…

— Vicky Krieps