William Wallace: Are you ready for a war?
There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall; And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.
I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.
Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of the Christopher Beeston who had acted with Shakespe...
Tania: Mr. Williams. [pause] Tania: *Mr. Williams!* Williams: For me? Tania: [Tania nods] Williams: You shouldn't have [pause] Williams: but, [pause] Williams: I'll take you darling, [pause] Williams: and you, [pause] Williams: and you, [pause] Willi...
Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I. But when thou sayest fool remember well That fools do walk in foolish company. So if I am a fool, perhaps ’tis true That other fools around me may be found.
William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience.
Between roars the lion purrs.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
Han: Are you shocked Mr Williams? Williams: Only at how sloppy your man works.
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Olivier's 'Hamlet.' That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare ...
The press is the enemy.
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.
People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
