I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical… — Christine Woods Copy Share Image
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims, but all people equally, showing that… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar” — Lisa M. Collins Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought… — Judy Davis Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I was not angry since I came to France Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald; Ride thou unto the horsemen on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I miss her. God, I do. It’s beyond missing; it’s a kind of mourning. And not just for everything we had, but… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle… — Varlam Shalamov Copy Share Image
He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I… — Joan Hickson Copy Share Image
From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not… — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
People go to see Shakespeare plays over and over, not because the story is new, but because they want to see how… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do.… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love.… — Kate Fleetwood Copy Share Image
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons,… — J.R. Partington Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to drama school really badly, but I'd never been to a theatre. I had no knowledge of Shakespeare.… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed… — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
![“The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died, and that theology was very influential in England in his lifetime. I think Shakespeare was attentive to questions raised by it, about human nature, history…” quote by Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f9f/marilynne-robinson-602_born_the-classic-theology-of-my-tradition-com_3125577.png)
![“He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.” quote by John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5e3/john-dryden-491_books_he-shakespeare-was-the-man-who-of-all-mo_2865062.jpg)
![“Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shakespeare, I love it [laughs] and the reason why is because he’s one of the wisest, most compassionate writers in the course of Western literature, in the course of all literature. And he understood…” quote by Tom Hiddleston](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/104/tom-hiddleston-1633_books_well-the-thing-that-i-suppose-is-closest_177277.png)
