Top 1200 Shakespeare Play Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

The Germans call him 'Our Shakespeare' because we love him.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

I fundamentally do not believe in the patenting of software. It would be like Shakespeare patenting the tragic love story.

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

I went to college at San Francisco State and supported myself working the graveyard shift at a brewery and did a little theater. It was great. I'd do Shakespeare and stuff like that.

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

Im always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one and slotting them into others.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have a real hunger for what they see as their history, their culture and their Shakespeare.

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?

We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

When it's time to play, I'm going to come play. I'm going to play the right way. I'm going to try to help my team in all directions, blocking and catching. If I don't have the ball in my hand, I'm going to protect, block down the field. I'm going to do whatever it takes to win.

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.