#shakespeare

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

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

— Mark Rylance

#go #intuitive #play #shakespeare #through

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#any #big #big star #bigger #could

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#good #good writing #i #improved #more

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare. ↗

— Christine Taylor

#love #shakespeare #someday

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#avengers #comedy #drama #fun #great

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ass #braggart #bragging #humility #humor

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#othello #shakespeare #love

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #parting #sadness #sorrow #sweetness

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? ↗