#shakespeare

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. ↗

— Anita Diament

#acting #alternative #beautiful #history #i

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#around #ask #did #dinner #hair

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#good #good song #like #lines #main

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#had #hamlet #juliet #romeo #romeo and juliet

Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#seven #seventeen #seventy #shakespeare #beauty

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts. ↗

— Samuel G. Engel

#nor #shakespeare #tavern

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bach #beethoven #i #jane #jane austen

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#any #example #for example #i #i think

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#combined #dramatic #else #ideas #me

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next! ↗

— Jorja Fox

#contracts #day #long #may #next