Dramatic Monologues Quotes

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

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

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

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

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

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.