#shakespeare

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#acting #being #between #comedian #comic

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#clarity #comes #doing #good #honesty

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#actor #audience #between #exchange #feeling

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#ensemble #going #hall #happening #home

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#before #brand #brand new #career #done

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#fully #had #hamlet #i #most

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#really #shakespeare #subtext #write #you

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

— John Foster

#desires #elements #fears #his #inner

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#end #events #example #falls #how

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#because #comedies #failure #fascinated #finality