Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a big part of what makes him great, in my opinion.
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences. ' When you train, you can do anything.
In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror, I'm not sure we know any more than Shakespeare did, or the Buddha. And the power of new things - the iPhone or Facebook - is so strong and intoxicating that we sometimes forget that none of them can fundamentally change our relation to ourselves and to what matters.
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.
Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.
She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.
Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.
But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.
One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.