John Tiffany Quotes

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

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

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

I thought that's where I would go: I would become a Shakespearian actor.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

I'm open to do a Filipino drama if I like the role or if the plot is attractive to me.