Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.
The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'
He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
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?
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.
Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have...
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.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
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.
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...
I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.
Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.
