435 Shakespeare Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? Michael J. Saylor

Half Think Everybody Shakespeare Naive Always Tragedies Stories Mean Succeeds Right

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere. Michael Mando

Words Before Williams Shakespeare Attracted Always Arthur Literature Acting Miller

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. Michael Tippett

Extreme Characters Shakespeare Form Theater

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. Michael Tippett

Myself Would Would-Be Shakespeare Figure Nearest

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play. Michelle Dockery

You Find Shakespeare Role Any Connection Play

I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield. Michelle Visage

Shakespeare Had Sheffield Dialect Coach Who Company Royal

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. Montgomery Clift

I think you have lots of actors who would much rather do a wonderful part at the Royal Shakespeare Company, but then you have to take a two-line part in a TV thing to pay the bills. Morfydd Clark

You Wonderful Pay Think TV Would Rather Shakespeare Take Part Lots Then Much Who Bills Company Actor Thing Royal

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English. Mr. T

Broken Kind Shakespeare Talk English

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare. Nathaniel Philbrick

You Shakespeare Underestimate Influence Cannot

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov. Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Learning Experience Amazing Drama Everything Shakespeare Had Amazing Experience Western Maxim

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood. Neil MacGregor

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London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience. Neil MacGregor

Theatre Better Society Else London Entire Shakespeare Audience Commercial Than Different Anyone Anyone Else Place Engage Means Grasped Whole Brings

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. Neil Patrick Harris

Thought Think Say Thought Process Tricky Shakespeare Deliver Writes Instead Because Within Felt Lines Text Green Just Process Little Then

I started in Shakespeare. I'm classically trained, which, how hilarious is that? Then one night, I saw Second City and thought, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.' But I never thought it would morph into screenplay writing. Nia Vardalos

I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that. Nick Hornby

Character You Language Whatever Macbeth Tell Hated About Shakespeare Students Had Understand Get Any Going Order Story Them Teaching

I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff. Nico Santos

Job Design Changes Would Dress Shakespeare Costume Costumes Stuff Major Chekhov Got Quick Fix Want Theater Wardrobe Them Working Acting Company Actor Eventually Switched Assistant

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck. Nicolas Cage

Work People Language Those William Seems Something Shakespeare Stuck Feels Effortlessly American Rhythms Mannerisms English English Language Speech

I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?' Olivia Colman

People Word Every Would Would-Be Find Russell Shakespeare Simon Terrifying Understand Does Did Same Huh Going Speech

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