#shakes

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts. ↗

— Samuel G. Engel

#nor #shakespeare #tavern

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next! ↗

— Jorja Fox

#contracts #day #long #may #next

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #been #children #deeply #drive

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. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#book #books #dying #give #just

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#just #like #place #sea #shakespeare

I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#bored #get #gets #going #i

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. ↗

— John Lithgow

#i #plays #shakespearean #time

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#going #see #shakespearean #sopranos #speaking

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#charlie #charlie chaplin #comedies #ever #funny