#shakes

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#after #costumes #dress #earth #frivolous

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#form #free #given #important #our

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

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#better #diligent #expert #god #i

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#musical theater #shakespeare #sondheim #theater #world

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that! ↗

— Julia Roberts

#just #kind #like #magic #me

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#believe #bible #change #church #evangelical

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#cannot #classical #handle #i #shakespeare