Tracy Letts Quotes

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

We care less about situations that are complex, difficult to tell and difficult to understand.

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

The farther you go, the less you know.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

The more I know, the less I understand

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

To know much is often the cause of doubting more.