#shakespeare

My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#hope #shakespeare-s-sister #virginia-woolf #courage

When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#brilliantly #difficult #discovered #easy #emotional

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#lot #modern #movie #poorly #scripts

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#black #come #evil #i #interesting

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.' ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#big #born #great #greatness #i

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. ↗

— John Foster

#desires #elements #fears #his #inner

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#his #just #know #shakespeare #start

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#angst #character #characters #hamlet #iii