As Shakespeare said, there's nothin' cooler than droppin' the 'g's off of gerunds! — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world. — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?' — John Kani Copy Share Image
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
“You pretty much have to take the job since you hit him with the car.” — Kathy Bryson Copy Share Image
The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare. — Robert Morse Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“I knew your plan before you made it,” Eldora proclaimed, tossing her Wert from hand to hand… “You are somewhat of a… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
Poor Marlowe gets a rough deal for simply not being Shakespeare. But he was Bill's forerunner. It's hard to imagine one without… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech. — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of stage combat over the years, and I've loved it. Started in college with William Shakespeare. I've always… — Brad Leland Copy Share Image
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be… — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert,… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
“A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world! As I do live by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in Venus is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of Lucrece , where virtue is so low-spirited, its… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.” — Jake Wizner Copy Share Image
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another. — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to… — Kelly McGillis Copy Share Image
I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
“...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.” — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
