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| Acting, Shakespeare | Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' ---the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity. | Guinness | Alec | |
| Acting, Shakespeare | Has anyone understood that the basic thing about Elizabethan theatre is that it was played in daylight? The actor saw the eyes of the audience. | Hall | Peter | |
| Acting, Shakespeare | Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king. | Hull | Josephine | |
| Acting, Shakespeare | Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. | Kline | Kevin | |
| Shakespeare | The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good. | Graves | Robert | |
| Shakespeare | Brush up your Shakespeare Start quoting him now Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow | Porter | Cole | |
| Shakespeare, Acting | You have to think about the big speeches in Shakespeare as the most important things the character has ever said; they need to be spoken with your chest cut open, your heart bare, and with tremendous passion. You need to tear the words from the sky. If you don't feel like you've run a marathon when you're done, you're not doing it right. It takes courage to open yourself up to an audience like that, letting them see your insides without desperately trying to show them--it takes practice. | Crystal | Ben | |
| Shakespeare, Acting | In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible. | Fiennes | Ralph | |
| Shakespeare, Acting | When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. | Laurence | Olivier | |
| Shakespeare, Directing | The play loses a great deal of its meaning if it is robbed of a magic which springs, not from the glittering tip of a department-store wand, but from the earth, the stones, the very air of the wood; and a magic which is not merely pretty but dark and dangerous. [said of A Midsummer Night's Dream | Guthrie | Tyrone | |
| Shakespeare, Playwriting | Shakespeare's plays are bad enough, but yours are even worse. [Tolstoy to Chekov] | Tolstoy | Leo |