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It’s true I don’t tolerate fools but then they don’t tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that’s why I’m quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Maggie Smith1934–2024“You have to laugh” (2004)
You have to be fierce as an actor. It’s not the actor’s job to be interesting; that’s the script’s job. It’s our job to be truthful and brave.
Mia Gothborn 1993“Mia Goth”. Interview Magazine. 20 September 2015.
The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In States unborn, and accents yet unknown!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by CassiusIn context
- History
I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act I, Scene II, spoken by BottomIn context
- Comedy
The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn context
- Art
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by PuckIn context
- Sleep
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage, where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
- Life & Death
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), EpilogueIn context
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context