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You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage? — Stan Lee

If music be the food of love, play on rock on . William Shakespeare

- love evolution — Michelle Mankin

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. — Arthur Smith

The play's the thing." ~~Hamlet — William Shakespeare

Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead! — William Shakespeare

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

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house. — William Shakespeare

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. — Diane Paulus

Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see. — William Shakespeare

Play out the play ... — William Shakespeare

And what's he then that says I play the villain? — William Shakespeare

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. — Alan Ayckbourn

How every fool can play upon the word! — William Shakespeare

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. — Gary Oldman

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

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. — Aaron Yoo

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf

Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them. — William Shakespeare

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. — Alex Cox

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera. — George Bernard Shaw

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite ... a play of Shakespeare's. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. — Samuel Johnson

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. — William Shakespeare

Educated men are so impressive! — William Shakespeare

Shall we upon the footing of our land
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
To arms invasive? — William Shakespeare

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love. — William Shakespeare

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. — Kevin Kline

I talk of you:
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am. — William Shakespeare

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
Ang'ring itself and others. — William Shakespeare

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. — William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare

If music is the food of love, play on. — William Shakespeare

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court. — Bill Russell

I will play the swan. And die in music. — William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare

That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare. — Gayle Forman

I hold the world but as the world ... - / A stage where every man must play a part — William Shakespeare

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening. — Phil Daniels

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner — William Shakespeare

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. — William Shakespeare

What a fool honesty is. — William Shakespeare

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. — Kelli O'Hara

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play. — Michelle Dockery

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn. — Thomas B. Macaulay

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. — Dominick Dunne

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. — William Shakespeare

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them. — William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It — William Shakespeare

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death. — William Shakespeare

Hamlet, I will argue, is a play about reading and misreading, about the difficulties of interpretation. — William Shakespeare

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. — William Shakespeare

I think," said antonio , "that the world is astage. Everybody has a part to play , and my part is sad part . — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. — Voltaire

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne ... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play — Tupac Shakur

They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play. — Cassandra Giovanni

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. — William Shakespeare

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
And wonder'd at the work herself had made. — Charles Churchill

Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me. — William Shakespeare

The play's the thing. — William Shakespeare

I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth. — Tamara Tunie

Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe