Pastoral Resources

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.