But above everything else, Shakespeare had to deal with a city of 400,000 people and a theatre that held 4,000 and everyone from the streetsweeper upwards. Not unlike your local cineplex, and he used everything possible to arrest and stop that audience - ...
Baz Luhrmann
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that`s about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
Ray Winstone
Marlon wanted me to escape movies for a while - `Take a year off. Go on. Study Shakespeare.` So it`s one of the things that keep ricocheting around in my head. He told me that by the time he had got to the point where he felt he could do Hamlet, it was to...
Johnny Depp
[on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness"] It`s a sin of omission, is what it is. You`re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It`s like Shakespeare still being alive and not as...
Stephen Colbert
[on the success of his movie Blackboard Jungle (1955)] "Sure, the reviews were great...but you would`ve thought they`d picked me up out of an ashtray, and made me a star. Hell, I`d already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats."
Vic Morrow
[Regarding he and Joseph Fiennes appearing in both Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Elizabeth (1998)] "He got to make love to Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. All I got was an Oscar nomination".
Geoffrey Rush
On playing Othello - "I didn`t realise how much I hated that play until I agreed to do it. I don`t mind Shakespeare so much, but I really hate Othello. Here was a guy who had been all over the world, kicking ass, looting, plundering and probably raping th...
Samuel Jackson
Theater really is my first love. I love the stage, performing for an audience. Some of my favorite credits would have to be the Shakespeare work I did in New York and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. I also loved working with Jim Henson on Muppets Take Ma...
Gates McFadden
The primary myth part came out of a revelation of the value of Shakespeare. Those are dramas that play to the simple person and the complicated person.
Baz Luhrmann
The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I`m not denying they exist. But it`s a far more philistine country than people think.
Colin Firth
I was sent the DVD of me in ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth (#1.2)" (2005), and there was this big, dramatic moment and I was thinking, this is looking good, and Myles came in and said, "Oh, Mummy, when are you going to do something good like Madagascar (2005)?...
Keeley Hawes
We used to hang out at Joss`s place Sunday nights and do Shakespeare readings. I got to do my Richard III recently. Then we`d have a few tequilas, sit around the piano and sing. I talked to Joss years ago about doing a Buffy musical, and then finally in t...
Anthony Head
On asked who he would invite to a dinner party he answered: "I`d have to have Jesus Christ there - I`d like to check him out. I`d also have to have [the Italian revolutionary] Garibaldi, because he`s a hero of mine, and I`d invite Shakespeare and King Hen...
Jamie Bamber
Probably Shakespeare. I did Othello in college, and Richard III, and those are the two roles I`d like to revisit. Movies? There`s a couple I wish I hadn`t done. I won`t say which ones, but there are a couple of mistakes there. - on what roles he`d like to...
Denzel Washington
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I`m a trained actor! I`ve done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!
Matthew Lillard
I don`t know Shakespeare! I`m not a serious actor. Directors always make references, and I go: "Ah, I`ll check it out," and I never, ever do. I`m incredibly lazy.
Joaquin Phoenix
[About living in Mexico] I still have my house in Mexico City. In fact, when I`m there, I perform in a play called The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Whenever I have a chance, I go to Mexico to be in it. This year has been a bit crazy for me. I ha...
Diego Luna
I don`t make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you`re a good comedian, you`re never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Ian McKellen
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
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You`re always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.
Ethan Hawke
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You`re always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.
Ethan Hawke
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That`s what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
