David Harbour Quotes

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

The 'Tron' fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.