Top 1200 Shakespeare Play Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
First, you have to play good football so that you get to play for a good team. Then, hopefully, you achieve such a level that you are invited to play for your national side, in time for a World Cup if possible. Then, obviously, play a good World Cup. That's my dream.
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
I'm not going to play with a filter anymore; I'm going to play the game I need to play to be a great player for my team.
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.
It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.
I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.
When we play in the Pro Tour there's no crowds in, so you can concentrate better. The others play better as well, there's players who can't play too good on TV but on the floor when it's nice and quiet they can bang them in, let me tell you.
Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.
My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.
My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.
Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it in a play, a sort of sci-fi play about morality in a virtual reality universe. Nothing to do with the book precisely, but it was a great play.
I called Scott Rudin, and I told him I wanted to do the play [Fences], so that's how the ball got rolling. I never said, "I'll do the play, and the next year I'll do the film, I just wanted to do the play."
We're gonna play fast, we're gonna play physical, we're gonna play furious, and we're gonna play contact football.
I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That's what I'm learning how to play.
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
What kid doesn't want to play in MSG? I've been fortunate enough to play there many, many times during my basketball career. Every chance I get to play there, I try to embrace it. I just love playing there.
To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They'd also play Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, James Brown.
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.
I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.
I really like to play to squash, because it's competitive, and I like basketball. I'm friends with a guy in L.A. called Andrew Bynum, who used to play for the L.A. Lakers NBA team. We play together sometimes.
I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.
To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take it lightly.
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
I play to have fun. I play to win. I play for my teammates.
[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
Play well, or play badly, but play truly.
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.
