Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right,… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Don't make generalisations about any group of children. For years I have felt angry with those who argue that Shakespeare and the… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
“My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Juliet: I will be thy chased rose and take thy name. My heart will continue drumming its love for you the same;… — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
“I am all the daughters of my father’s house, And all the brothers too. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Certainly in the case of 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' if it makes children or adults a little more interested in Shakespeare, there's nothing… — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
“What’s past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don’t bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way… — Anthony Grey Copy Share Image
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Not where he eats, but where he is eaten’?” He laughed again. “Racine has his moments, sure, but you can’t beat Shakespeare… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Only one man had the circumstances and gifts to give us such incomparable works, and William Shakespeare of Stratfrod was unquestionably that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
“You can’t please all of the readers all of the time; you can’t please even some of the readers all of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
“Fact: You are part Shakespeare. You are part Jack the Ripper. You are part dinosaur. You are part of a star that… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“He remembers the first time he saw Olivia, and how he had felt that she cleared the air of all pestilence, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I liked that line in the movie 'Shakespeare in Love': 'How is this going to work out? I don't know, but it… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad. — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
