“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare. — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere. — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them. — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you? — Peter Hambleton Copy Share Image
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language… — James Avery Copy Share Image
“Coleridge’s description of Iago’s actions as "motiveless malignancy" applies in some degree to all the Shakespearian villains. The adjective motiveless means, firstly,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the main thing I did in my life from the age of 16 when I first played 'Hamlet' at school.… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“In life,” he said, “there are no essentially major or minor characters. To that extent, all fiction and biography, and most historiography,… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' -… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
“Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist. — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.” — Kevin N. Fair Copy Share Image
“Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” as Shakespeare put it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people. — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right. — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
