Lear Quotes - Page 3

• Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sith, Thee

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear”, p.11, Booklassic

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• The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself

  William Shakespeare

  Quality, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.789

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• I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Flying, Motorcycle

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.

  Arjun Rampal

  Rocks, Careers, Lucky

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• I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

  Rob Reiner

  Growing Up, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Kings, Regret, Broken

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.250, 1982.

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• The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.

  George Steiner

  Art, Kings, Passion

  "Real Presences". Book by George Steiner, 1986.

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• I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

  Ian Holloway

  Kings, Feels

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• I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Kings, Play, Choices

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, tv.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

  Peter O'Toole

  People, Interesting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

  Simon Callow

  Kings, Needs, Dementia

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• To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Kings, Understanding, Watches

  Peter Ackroyd (2005). “Shakespeare: The Biography”, Vintage

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• As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

  David Crystal

  Kings, Dad, Years

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• I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Kings, Age, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Three, Three Times

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• I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.

  Dave Grohl

  Couple, People, Records

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• When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Order, Law, Foundation

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• A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

  Mason Cooley

  Funny, Laughing, Would Be

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• I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Song, Intelligent, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4159, Library of Alexandria

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• What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

  Christopher Moore

  Names, Towns, Hail

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• People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

  Brian Blessed

  Kings, Thinking, Differences

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• Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellent, Lows, Gentle

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [274]

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• Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Women, Simple

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• When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

  Frank Langella

  Kings, Three, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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