#shakespeare

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#either #good #makes #nor #nothing

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#energy #find #freshness #more #passion

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. ↗

— Colin Firth

#country #denying #english #english people #exist

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#extreme #form #shakespeare #theater

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#ever #fascinated #hardly #his #imagination

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#gets #most #shakespeare #who

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare. ↗

— Emma Watson

#know #love #other #shakespeare #some

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. ↗

— Aaron Yoo

#been #doing #dream #else #everyone

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#certainly #eventually #gets #himself #i

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #first #first of all #interest #moment