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• My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I’ve never waited a table. I taught some – I’ll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there’s some motor in me that needs to do that.

  John Michael Higgins

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  Tags in Table, Shakespeare

• If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

  Mark Helprin

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Tragedy

• Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? – What? – Is there not sad stuff? What? – What?

  George William Frederick III

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Greatness

• People have known of Shakespeare’s homosexuality down through the ages.

  George Weinberg

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Homosexuality

• Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, ‘I have to be in this movie.’

  Geoffrey Rush

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Shakespeare

• Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in Shakespeare

• I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world’s greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

  Thomas Bowdler

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  Tags in Acknowledge, Shakespeare

• My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

  William Kempe

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Actor, Nine

• It’s easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it’s like, just try to look good. Or maybe don’t use Spelling there, that’s bad. No – you can. He’s dead.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Shakespeare, Spelling

• Someday I’d love to do Shakespeare.

  Christine Taylor

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Someday

• What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

  Edward Bond

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Question, Human Being

• Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

  Edward Bond

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  Tags in Shakespeare

• Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

  Edward Hall

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Human Nature

• We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare’s words.

  Edward Hall

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Words

• We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

  Charles Dance

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  Tags in Shakespeare

• To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle’s rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Judge, Shakespeare

• Language is always evolving. It’s difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

  Erik Qualman

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  Tags in Language, Difficult, Shakespeare

• In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

  Ray Liotta

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  Tags in Musical, Shakespeare

• Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

  Eugene Ionesco

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Great Man

• I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I’d probably struggle at first but then I’d start to look for words I recognise and I’d get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

  Ralph Fiennes

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  Tags in Shakespeare, Accent, Struggle