#shake

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#better #change #even #final #form

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#actor #age #already #anyone #day

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#inspiration #mere #reed #shaken #wind

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#been #bogus #careers #gives #i

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#actually #continuously #goes #language #mysterious

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. ↗

— James Broughton

#humans #i #out #owe #parts

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. ↗

— H. C. Bunner

#lived #note #quote #shakespeare #things

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#cannot #difference #even #exact #failure

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#love #shakespeare #love

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#clenched #fist #hands #shake #you