Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
Shakespeare. . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. " Everything happens perfectly.
Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?
It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences. ' When you train, you can do anything.
When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.
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.
You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare.
Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.
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.