Andre Braugher Quotes

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

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.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

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

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

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

I love making 'iCarly' - it's so much fun, and I love getting the script every week and not really knowing what insane thing I'm going to be doing. It's just like an adventure every episode; that's really fun.

I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season.

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.