Quotes of: Lear Keyword

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...

King Lear

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Helen Mirren

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.

King Lear

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.

michael p naughton

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

Peter Fonda

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Peter Ustinov

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

Christopher Moore

If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

Ian Mckellen

LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes. GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

William Shakespeare

I am even The natural fool of fortune.

King Lear

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

King Lear

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.

Julie White

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Liam Neeson

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

Robert Wilson

If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?

Patti Stanger

There are a lot of millionairess situations. I'm one of them. I've always dated down financially. And now I'm changing my tune on that one. Things are going to change for me.

Patti Stanger

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.

King Lear

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

King Lear

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

King Lear

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

King Lear