Lear Quotes

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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

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

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

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

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

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?

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.

I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

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.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

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

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

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

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

Pour on, I will endure.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile