Shakespeare Quotes · Page 13

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

— James Joyce

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

— Peter Brook

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

— Kevin Kline

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

— Ray Stevenson

“He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”

— Washington Irving

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

— Steven Spielberg

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

— Mary Ruefle

“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”

— Nathan Reese Maher

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage,…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a…

— Nathan Reese Maher

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked…

— Greg Weisman

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century…

— Sam Wanamaker

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me…

— Jesse L. Martin

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

— Roger Rees

Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his…

— George Edward Woodberry

“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret…

— John O'Hara

“He turned toward my voice. "Am I well?" His mocking tone was unmistakable. "Am I well? Why can't you just talk like…

— Tom McNeal

It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or…

— Terry Teachout

It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as…

— Howard Jacobson

“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,…

— W.H. Auden

“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to…

— Peter Porter

“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And…

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

— Samuel Johnson

“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an…

— William Shakespeare

“Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus , so you tell me.”

— John Scalzi

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

— Alanis Morissette

“She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.”

— William Shakespeare

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.”

— Ray Bradbury

“This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.”

— Kathy Bryson

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

— Clark Gregg

“There’s no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.”

— Kathy Bryson

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.

— Richard McCabe

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

— John Cooper Clarke

“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”

— William Shakespeare

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

— Margaret Atwood

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

— Finn Wolfhard

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

— Jones Very