#spear

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here. ↗

— Alan Cumming

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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. ↗

— Alan Cumming

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You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. ↗

— John Bradshaw

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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. ↗

— Alan Davies

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When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is. ↗

— Judy Davis

#acting #down #first #great #how

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. ↗

— Rita Dove

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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

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I have grown up loving Shakespeare. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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