#shakespeare

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#get #i #just #kid #never

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#called #guess #i #laurence #laurence olivier

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#actor #away #caviar #feeding #gods

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.' ↗

— Al Pacino

#plays #shakespeare #than #violent

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#ibsen #pay #rarely #rent #shakespeare

A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter of Elizabethan England. The low dark arches, the low strong pillars upon which Shakespeare's temple rests we can all explore and handle. We can all get into his mere tragedy; we can all explore his dungeon and penetrate into his coal-cellar, but we stretch our hands and crane our necks in vain towards that height where the tall turrets of his levity are tossed towards the sky. Perhaps it is right that this should be so; properly understood, comedy is an even grander thing than tragedy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#shakespeare #tragedy #dreams

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish. ↗

— Allan Carr

#i #i think #rubbish #shakespeare #think

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. ↗

— Richard McCabe

#eloquently #feeling #felt #shakespeare #something

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. ↗

— William Kempe

#background #ballet #ballet dancer #classics #contemporary