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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.
Play is the work of childhood.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
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