Shakespeare Quotes · Page 17

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

— Matthew Arnold

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

— Jonathan Tucker

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

— George A. Moore

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

— Campbell Scott

“To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years Will Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.”

— Robinson Jeffers

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

— James Cromwell

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of…

— John Lithgow

“S H A K E S P E A R E' S U N I VE R S A L I S…

— Anonymous

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare.…

— John Mortimer

“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet…

— William Shakespeare

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at…

— Alan Cumming

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move…

— Ken Kesey

Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been…

— Paul Westhead

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves…

— Harold Bloom

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.…

— Terry Teachout

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with…

— Robert Gottlieb

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing…

— Matt Haig

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles…

— Marchette Chute

“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his…

— Joseph Lewis

“Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation…

— Gilbert Highet

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic.…

— Anonymous

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

— Robert Browning

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

— Richard Flanagan

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

— P. G. Wodehouse

You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

— William Shakespear

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

— Arthur Smith

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Thou art a very ragged Wart. William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2

— William Shakespear

“Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.”

— Sherman Alexie

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

— John Kani

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

— Mr. T

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

— John David Washington

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

— Robert Browning

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

— Anthony Hopkins

“This blood feud is a bit too Shakespearean, if ye want the truth. I’m no Montague, and ye’re no Capulet.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of…

— Spike Milligan

“That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.”

— Gayle Forman