Shakespeare Quotes · Page 18

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

— Bertrand Russell

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

— Dan Devine

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

— Charles Churchill

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

— Dean Koontz

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

— Robert Benchley

“They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.”

— Rebecca Serle

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare…

— Jimmy Smits

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system…

— Edward St. Aubyn

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces…

— Harriet Walter

“She should have read the damned play. She should have spent hours reading Shakespeare. The duke was making literature sound a lot…

— Eloisa James

I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I…

— Kristoffer Polaha

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history…

— Ian Fleming

We've seen Shakespeare done a billion times to make it seem relevant today. We love period dramas. We love to long for…

— Claudia Jessie

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I…

— John Dryden

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in…

— Felicity Kendal

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the…

— C. C. H. Pounder

There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel…

— Richard Eyre

“In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight…

— Bob Harris

My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it…

— Ian Doescher

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character…

— Derek Walcott

“My lord constable, the armor that I saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or suns upon it? Con. Stars, my…

— William Shakespeare

But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare…

— John Constable

I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it…

— Marilynne Robinson

“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”

— Rebecca Serle

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

— Clark Gregg

“There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.”

— John Green

“The word 'love' covers a multitude of sins. Anne Shakespeare (mother)”

— Peter W. Hassinger

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons…

— Vanessa Kirby

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

— Laura Riding

“We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.”

— Ada Palmer

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

— George Orwell

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

— Lauren Hutton

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

— Janet Suzman

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

— Lenny Henry

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

— Greta Garbo

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

— Alan Cumming

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

— Roger Rees

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

— Josephine Hull