The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature.… — Montgomery Clift Copy Share Image
I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad ,and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
“That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
Not Shakespeare. In college I took a Shakespeare class because I was an English major, and they had a Summer program called… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was… — George III Copy Share Image
I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
“Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed… — Mark Williams Copy Share Image
“Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many people know that Shakespeare's dramatic 'canon' was established in 1623 by the publication of the so-called First Folio. That hefty volume… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works… — Bill Hirst Copy Share Image
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
