I've been in plays that have been freely adapted from Shakespeare, and sometimes one's wary of those. — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I've done some Shakespeare and I was really scared, but I am pleased I did it. — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'll moider da bum - when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare — Tony Galento Copy Share Image
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Where does an actress go after playing Cleopatra's magnificent death? Why didn't Shakespeare write more - and more powerful - roles for… — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One… — Peggy Ashcroft Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney… — Kirsten Prout Copy Share Image
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well.… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was… — Eamonn Walker Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
“Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In Old English, thou ( thee, thine , etc.) was singular and you was plural. But during the thirteenth century, you started… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
