Shakespeare Quotes - page 6

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare. (Kelly McGillis)
At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me. View quote
Kelly Reilly
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were. View quote
Leonard Maltin
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. View quote
Lukas Foss
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western. View quote
Lawrence Kasdan
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. View quote
Maximilian Schell
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. View quote
Michael Moriarty
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. View quote
Michael Tippett
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. View quote
Michael Tippett
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. View quote
Montgomery Clift
Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' (Nicholas Jarecki)
The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. View quote
Powers Boothe
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. View quote
Patrick Stewart
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. View quote
Patrick Stewart
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. View quote
Richard McCabe
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards. View quote
Rob Corddry
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. View quote
Rob Delaney
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language. View quote
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. View quote
Sharon Gless
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' View quote
Simon Callow
Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time. (Trevor Nunn)
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. View quote
Trevor Nunn
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. View quote
Trevor Nunn
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare. View quote
Thomas Bowdler
It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead. View quote
Vincent Kartheiser