Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I love playing a role, anything that's dramatic. I'm enjoying living that kind of life: being someone else, getting to die, being a temptress. I enjoy being someone else on stage.

I never played an ingenue.

When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.