Quotes About Shakespeare Audiences

#1. After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

Jeff Britting

#2. What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.

Kenneth Branagh

#4. My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

Malcolm X

#5. It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

Tracy Keenan Wynn

#6. One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

Julie Taymor

#7. The best revenge is the time. Time takes it's revenge all the time.

Arzum Uzun

#8. Some of us like to take a walk on the wild side.

Michael Jackson

#9. They'd performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatrical offerings.

Emily St. John Mandel

#10. The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Anthony Burgess

#11. A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.

Tim Crouch

#12. A cover letter can connect the dots between where you've been, where you are, and where you're trying to go.

Sophia Amoruso

#13. Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.

Alan Ayckbourn

#14. When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.

Horace Walpole

#15. If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Toni Morrison