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
“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?” — Lenore Look Copy Share Image
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game.… — Tim Crouch 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
“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 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
“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now,… — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got… — Mark Rylance 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
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
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“[T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree. — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage,… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked… — Greg Weisman Copy Share Image
People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest. " Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur,… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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