#shakespeare

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#area #because #comedy #detective #done

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. ↗

— Terri Windling

#adage #before #done #how #old

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#anything #knows #legend #nobody #person

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

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. ↗

— John Lithgow

#me #milk #mother #shakespeare

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#begin #i #mine #never #poem

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#fact #had #i #important #important fact

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#fun #games #guy #i #i love

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#force #genius #his #human #insignificance

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#emotions #extraordinary #history #intensification #look