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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.
I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.
Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.
Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.
Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.
I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.
I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.
Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.
Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.
Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.
I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.
It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.
I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.
I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.