Shakespeare Quotes · Page 15

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

— Joss Whedon

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

— William Shatner

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

— Denis Diderot

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.

— Tom Bateman

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

— Tracy Letts

Shakespeare writes such wonderful parts for women, parts that work so well today. I think he really liked women.

— Geraldine James

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

— Horace Walpole

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?”

— Lenore Look

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game.…

— Tim Crouch

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?”

— William Shakespeare

Im not Shakespeare to write about U, I Am Not Shelley To Sing About U, I Am Not Piccasso To Paint u,…

— Kaceem Madridista

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically…

— Beau Willimon

[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going…

— Cynthia Nixon

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's…

— Blythe Danner

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we…

— Jasper Fforde

“This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But…

— Mark Forsyth

“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in…

— Ronald Carter

“What, then, can Shakespearean tragedy, on this brief view, tell us about human time in an eternal world? It offers imagery of…

— Frank Kermode

“In the gravedigger scene in act V, Hamlet looks upon an anonymous skull and jokes that even Alexander the Great decomposed into…

— Sarah Vowell

“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if…

— Shakespeare, William

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

— James Broughton

“William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?”

— Marc Norman

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

— Anonymous

“...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes…his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head…”

— John Geddes

“every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

“I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.”

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

— Daniel Craig

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

— Louise Jameson

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

— Alan Arkin

“Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.”

— William Shakespeare

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

— Ai Weiwei

“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”

— Anonymous

“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

— Edward Bond

“Turns out there’s a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.”

— Kathy Bryson