#shakespeare

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #taming-of-the-shrew #unmoved #romantic

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting. ↗

— Armand Assante

#actor #dream #great #like #me

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#love #shakespeare #love

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#because #contamination #freud #i #i think

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#crucial #enough #even #ever #every

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#fact #finds #freud #freudian #gives

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#everyone #everywhere #exists #feels #him

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#better #change #even #final #form

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#down #edge #fan #great #guess

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. ↗

— James Broughton

#humans #i #out #owe #parts