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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.
I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.
I thought I was gonna do Lear, but I'm gonna do Maura.
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.
I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.
The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'
One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man.
I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.
I hunt and fish, and I don't fly on Lear jets, and I don't smoke Cuban cigars.
I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.
'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.
I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the 1980s and 1990s.
Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.
Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero.
I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
Some days it seems I've done as much as I can here and I think I'll go and try my luck in America. But then a call comes from the Globe theatre. They want me for King Lear, playing Edmund.
I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.
The Four Horsemen were limousines and Lear Jets, while DX was trailer parks and outhouses. One was white trash, one was upper crust. I always saw DX and the NWO as the natural rivals at the time.
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.