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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
Author:
Aaron Yoo
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Author:
Terri Windling
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I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Author:
Samuel West
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Author:
Orson Welles
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People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
Author:
George Weinberg
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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
Author:
Sam Waterston
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Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Author:
Julie Walters
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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Author:
Don Vliet
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I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.
Author:
Jim Varney
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On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
Author:
Scott Turow
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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
Author:
Sharon Tate
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You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
Author:
Janet Suzman
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If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.
Author:
Mark Strong
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A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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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.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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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.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
Author:
Antony Sher
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Author:
George Shaw
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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.
Author:
Maximilian Schell
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My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
Author:
Dick Schaap
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
Author:
Nathalie Sarraute
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It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
Author:
Mark Rylance
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Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
Author:
John Ritter
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Author:
Vanessa Redgrave
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
Author:
Vanessa Redgrave
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
Author:
Basil Rathbone
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
Author:
Ted Rall
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
Author:
Mandy Patinkin
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
Author:
Mandy Patinkin
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I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Author:
Ben Okri
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I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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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.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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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.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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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.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
Author:
Ajay Naidu
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Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
Author:
Alanis Morissette
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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Author:
Michael Moriarty
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To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.
Author:
Elizabeth Montagu
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I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Author:
Spike Milligan
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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
Author:
Jonathan Miller
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Author:
Marshall McLuhan
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Author:
Ian Mckellen
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If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
Author:
Richard McCabe
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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.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
Author:
Kyle MacLachlan
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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
Author:
John Lithgow
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In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.
Author:
Ray Liotta
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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Author:
Irving Layton
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
Author:
Ted Lange
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Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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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 thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Author:
Ken Kesey
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
Author:
William Kempe
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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.
Author:
Lawrence Kasdan
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
Author:
James Joyce
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I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.
Author:
Louise Jameson
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I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
Author:
Christopher Isherwood
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Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?
Author:
Henry Irving
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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Author:
Eugene Ionesco
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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
Author:
Anthony Hopkins
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I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
Author:
Anthony Hopkins
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Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
Author:
Charlton Heston
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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Author:
Frederick Hedge
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Author:
Ian Hart
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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.
Author:
Neil Harris
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
Author:
Neil Harris
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Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
Author:
Edward Hall
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We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.
Author:
Edward Hall
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
Author:
Uta Hagen
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When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Author:
Thom Gunn
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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Author:
Robert Graves
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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Author:
Robert Graves
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To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
Author:
Al Goldstein
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I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.
Author:
Sharon Gless
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Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?
Author:
George George III
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I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
Author:
Brendan Fraser
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To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
Author:
John Foster
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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.
Author:
Lukas Foss
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An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.
Author:
Glenn Ford
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The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.
Author:
Colin Firth
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I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
Author:
Joseph Fiennes
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
Author:
Rainer Fassbinder
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Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.
Author:
Samuel Engel
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I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
Author:
Christopher Eccleston
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Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
Author:
Christopher Eccleston
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
Author:
Rita Dove
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Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
Author:
Anita Diament
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
Author:
Dan Devine
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Author:
Andrew Denton
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It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
Author:
Judi Dench
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It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
Author:
Judi Dench
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When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
Author:
Judy Davis
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Author:
Blythe Danner
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We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
Author:
Charles Dance
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It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
Author:
David Crystal
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I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
Author:
Daniel Craig
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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Author:
Alex Cox
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
Author:
Alex Cox
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
Author:
Alex Cox
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Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
Author:
William Collins
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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.
Author:
Montgomery Clift
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
Author:
Jack Chalker
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Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
Author:
Dyan Cannon
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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
Author:
George Byron
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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
Author:
H. Bunner
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I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.
Author:
Dick Bruna
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Author:
Robert Browning
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Author:
Jackson Browne
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
Author:
James Broughton
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Author:
Joyce Brothers
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
Author:
Kenneth Branagh
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There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
Author:
Kenneth Branagh
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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
Author:
Kenneth Branagh
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I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
Author:
Kenneth Branagh
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You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
Author:
John Bradshaw
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Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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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.
Author:
Thomas Bowdler
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Author:
Edward Bond
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What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
Author:
Edward Bond
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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Shakespeare is universal.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Author:
Brendan Behan
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I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.
Author:
Howard Barker
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Author:
Tallulah Bankhead
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Author:
Lloyd Alexander
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
Author:
M. Abrams
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With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Author:
Peter Abrahams
