I feel like Shakespeare is so epic, in a way that sci-fi genre stuff is epic, it transcends the mundane, and it… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of… — Rufus Sewell Copy Share Image
“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A new report claims that William Shakespeare was a marijuana user and may have been high when he wrote some of his… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare put characters in extreme circumstances, all over his plays. Therefore their behaviour becomes extreme, in ways that can be both extremely… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness,… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Come, all sad and solemn shows, That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes! We convènt naught else but woes. William Shakespeare” — George Chityil Copy Share Image
“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
“He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Yeah, but I don’t know. There is something about the tragic stories of Shakespeare. It’s as if we all know how it… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school.… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said,… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
![“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/107/virginia-woolf-49_androgyny_all-who-have-brought-about-a-state-of-se_2271608.jpg)
![“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]” quote by William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/337/william-shakespeare-4_acting_totus-mundus-agit-histrionem-all-the-wor_1142758.jpg)
![“Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.” quote by Bill Nighy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e2d/bill-nighy-4521_actors_often-in-america-people-would-assume-tha_1559846.jpg)
