Almost Quote by Tim Crouch

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

— Roger Rees

When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if…

— Gary Oldman

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play…

— C. A. Bartol

“I know of no actor who is so pure onstage that he thinks only what his character thinks. If he did, he would presumably…

— David Burke

The plays that survive the most easily are the ones in which Shakespeare has dug deep into the psychology of people in extreme situations.

— Adrian Lester

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to…

— Mel Giedroyc

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let…

— John Guare

I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of…

— Laura Wade

That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked…

— Denzel Washington

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them,…

— Arthur Miller

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language…

— Kenneth Branagh

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