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It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.
When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.
I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take it lightly.
Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.
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.
Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.
At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.
My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
I had such a broad array of classes, in improvising, in clowning, in Shakespeare. It was so great to just be inundated with all that.
Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
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.
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.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait.
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.
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.
The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.
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.
I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
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.
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict.
Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.
I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
I've been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would say, but I am.
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'