#shakespeare

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

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

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. ↗

— John Lithgow

#i #plays #shakespearean #time

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#going #see #shakespearean #sopranos #speaking

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#charlie #charlie chaplin #comedies #ever #funny

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#enchanter #fantasy #heart #imagination #magic

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#comedy #i #i love #improv #love

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

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

— Louise Jameson

#cannot #classical #handle #i #shakespeare

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#good #good writing #i #improved #more