Shakespeare Quotes · Page 22

I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare.

— Dakin Matthews

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

— Orson Welles

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

— Mickey Spillane

“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.”

— Peter Saccio

I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!'

— Colin Mochrie

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

— Kelly Reilly

“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.”

— Marc Norman

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

— Samuel Johnson

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly…

— Tim Curry

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under…

— Samuel West

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when…

— Alfred B. Douglas

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar…

— Kate Winslet

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my…

— Xavier Samuel

It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that…

— Hilary Mantel

I find Shakespeare surprisingly sexual. A lot of his language - a lot - has that kind of sexual innuendo that is…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer,…

— Ben Jonson

“He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death--and he drove…

— Aldous Huxley

I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that.…

— Steve Earle

I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a…

— Robert Picardo

One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the…

— Howard Gardner

“The name of Robert G. Ingersoll is in the pantheon of the world. More than any other man who ever lived he…

— Eugene Victor Debs

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but…

— Alan Cumming

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had…

— Orlando Bloom

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

— Kelli O'Hara

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

— Mark Gatiss

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

“This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!”

— Kathy Bryson

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

— Sam Heughan

“I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.”

— Kathy Bryson

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

— Victor Hugo

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

— Helen Keller

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

— Oscar Isaac

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

— Martha MacCallum

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!

— Robert Browning

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

— Andre Holland

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

— Lord Byron

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

— Alex Trebek

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

— Lenny Henry