#shakes

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#date #deals #death #important #question

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#deliver #felt #green #i #instead

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#end #events #example #falls #how

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#because #comedies #failure #fascinated #finality

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. ↗

— James Joyce

#ground #happy #hunting #lost #minds

It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead. ↗

— Vincent Kartheiser

#aaron spelling #bad #because #challenge #crazy

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#myself #nearest #shakespeare #would

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor. ↗

— Harvey Korman

#going #got #i #out #service

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#books #could #defensive #enough #essentially

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#circumstances #exalt #historians #how #improve