William Shakespeare Quotes About Theatre

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

• Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Unhappy, Theatre

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

• As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Theatre

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

• All the world's a stage.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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