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Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor. -- James Avery
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. -- Alan Cumming
The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. -- Powers Boothe
It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. -- Judi Dench
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. -- Claire Tomalin
I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park. -- Meat Loaf
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. -- Trevor Nunn
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. -- Kate Winslet
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. -- Condola Rashad
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. -- Stephen Sondheim
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself. -- Kenneth Branagh
The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next! -- Jorja Fox
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do. -- Ben Whishaw
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. -- Kenneth Branagh
An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare. -- Glenn Ford
Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors. -- Clive Thompson
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again. -- Al Pacino
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me. -- Michael Clarke Duncan
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act. -- Laurence Olivier
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part. -- Julie Taymor
Actors are different. Some actors play themselves very successfully, but I come from the theater. Having done Shakespeare, we sometimes did three or four characters in the same play. -- Stellan Skarsgard

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