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Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

Antony Sher

History

Career

Shakespeare

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

George Bernard Shaw

Shakespeare

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Maximilian Schell

Shakespeare

Tragedy

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Dick Schaap

Shakespeare

Writing

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Ted Rall

Shakespeare

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

Mandy Patinkin

Shakespeare

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.