#shakes

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#go #intuitive #play #shakespeare #through

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#aware #been #being #complex #disaster

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#emily #fervently #gods #gotten #herman

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. ↗

— William Shatner

#company #done #fun #had #i

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#down #enough #find #minister #prime

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#children #circles #i #modern #move

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#fulfilling #home #however #intended #never

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#fool #i #myself #see #shakespeare

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#been #deep #ever #i #i think

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#hamlet #i #introduce #juliet #just