Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually produce the complete works… — James Browning Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible… — Rhiannon McGavin Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“Ladies, you deserve To have a temple built you: all the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“In the works of Shakespeare , the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“William Shakespeare - Romeo y Julieta ([email protected]) - Your Highlight on Location 65-66 | Added on Saturday, March 15, 2014 4:00:39 PM” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to… — Glenn Ford Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare. No one reads Shakespeare in a bar unless it’s a ploy to pick up girls. All I’m saying is you might… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I like Shakespeare, but it's not my bread and butter. It's not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
“By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it… — Ingela Bohm Copy Share Image
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich -… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare may have said it in Hamlet that "clothes maketh a man." And this may not be entirely wrong, as a man’s… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We studied so much Shakespeare in drama school and I'd like to go back to that. I'd really throw myself into something… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
“Were half to half the world by the ears and he Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make Only my wars with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
![“[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.” quote by Laurence Olivier](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/756/laurence-olivier-11163_actors_on-whether-he-harbored-any-resentment-at_368719.png)
