#shakespeare

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

— Dyan Cannon

#either #good #makes #nor #nothing

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

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

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#found #i #lately #me #nauseated

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. ↗

— Rita Dove

#alive #come #extremely #had #i

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#another #cancel #drives #every #expert

I have grown up loving Shakespeare. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#i #loving #shakespeare #up

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

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages. ↗

— George Weinberg

#down #homosexuality #known #people #shakespeare