#shakes

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.' ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#big #born #great #greatness #i

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. ↗

— John Foster

#desires #elements #fears #his #inner

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#his #just #know #shakespeare #start

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#frightening #good #i #i think #music

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. ↗

— Frederick Henry Hedge

#available #creative #dante #dreaming #every

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older. ↗

— JoJo

#actually #been #boy #did #experience

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#crave #i #just #know #love

Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #heaven #love #pain #romeo-and-juliet