Shakespeare Quotes · Page 12

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

— Emma Watson

“Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: "Me conquisté yo misma".”

— William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare

— SangFroid Stalker

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

— William Shakespeare

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

Shakespeare's a fraud??!! Then who am I supposed to be pretending that I've read?!

— Anonymous

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love…

— Annette Bening

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur,…

— Charlton Heston

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold,…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue…

— Sylvester Stallone

“[T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen…

— Michael D. O'Brien

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

— Christian Cooke

When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works…

— Ellen Burstyn

“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death…

— William Shakespeare

Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is…

— William Shakespeare

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,…

— Norman Mailer

“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can…

— Paul Barnes

IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I’m having my lunch when I hear a familiar hoarse shout, ‘Oy Tony!’ I whip round, damaging my neck further, to see…

— Antony Sher

I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or…

— Gregory Doran

“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!”

— William Shakespeare

“Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.”

— Kathy Bryson

Shakespeare is for everybody, not just for toffs with a cauliflower down their tights.

— Lenny Henry

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

“I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.”

— William Shakespeare

“What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.”

— Michael Cunningham

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

— Alex Cox

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

— Walter Raleigh

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

— George Bernard Shaw

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

— Samuel Johnson

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

— Stan Lee

“What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.”

— Anonymous

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

— Vanessa Redgrave

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

I've been lucky enough to do a tiny bit of Shakespeare onstage over the years.

— Adrian Dunbar