“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest” — Alex St. Clair Copy Share Image
“He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.” — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“Clearly Hamlet wasn’t just a fictional Prince of Denmark but also something of an alpha dodo.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really. — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting.… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture,… — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity:… — Jennifer Lee Carrell Copy Share Image
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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![“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation, even insistence,for others to join him in the act of imagining...His reticence [to add stage directions] made his works wonderfully elastic. It…” quote by Jennifer Lee Carrell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c91/jennifer-lee-carrell-46657_shakespeare_but-there-were-other-great-writers-who-h_2327616.jpg)
![“Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It…” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/773/al-pacino-1656_admire_many-years-ago-in-the-late-70s-i-toured_1525636.jpg)
