It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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.
Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
My parents are big Shakespeare fans.
You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?
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.
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.
I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.
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.
The magic word 'Shakespeare' always freezes you in your chair.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
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.
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Shakespeare is universal.
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.
Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.
