Renee O'Connor Quotes

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

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

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

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

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

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

I would love to play Richard III.

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

I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

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

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.

[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.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?