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I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.

— Rob Lowe

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.

— Rob Lowe

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

— Steven Moffat

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

— Eric Walters

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

— Renee O'Connor

Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

— Robert Dallek

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

— Roger Rees

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

— Stephen Greenblatt

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

— Douglas Booth

There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

— David Denman

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