Lear Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• After we did [All In The Family], that ended up being a real love fest all around. Me and Norman, Norman [Lear] and me, Rob Reiner, everybody liked everybody. So about six or seven months later I moved out to L.A. and I got a call that Norman wanted to see me. I came in and he said "ABC has given me a property that they just optioned to make into a TV series. It's from a play called Hot L Baltimore, and I want you to be in it."

  Richard Masur

  Real, Seven Months, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

  Derek Jacobi

  Quality, Actors, Young

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• I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].

  Richard Masur

  Girl, New York, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mason Cooley

  Funny, Laughing, Would Be

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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'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It is about the Declaration of Independence and the relevance of the document today. And it will be fun and engaging - I promise!

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Fun, Independence, Promise

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Three, Three Times

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