Acting Shakespeare Quotes

“N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“I once tried to approach Akiro Kurosawa, but he never answered.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“I never saw a production at Stratford Ontario, Guthrie's own theatre, which he designed and developed from a tent and which was said to work wonderfully.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage,”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“as there
were no kind of sanitary facilities on the premises, the results were apt to be unsightly and demoralising, to say the least.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“lago to amuse the audience, especially since Othello (like Macbeth) has no sense of humour.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“Caesar is not really very interesting: Cassius is the part. I”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“Twice today I've got to play Hamlet, this great part that I shall never play again. And I can't do it today. I could do it tomorrow, or next week, but I can't do it now.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“Richard II is something of a plaster saint and knows it only too well. But it is a rewarding part, with lovely things to say, and I thought it suited my personality.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare

“Shakespeare's intention: he so carefully devised the balcony scene as prelude, and the farewell scene as post-consummation, in order to avoid embarrassing both the boy actor who created his Juliet and the audience.”
― John Gielgud, Acting Shakespeare