I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

Shakespeare is for everybody, not just for toffs with a cauliflower down their tights.

— Lenny Henry

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to…

— Gene Simmons

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

— Oscar Isaac

But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver…

— William Alfred Quayle

“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether…

— Kenneth Branagh

“You will never see the ends of his armies. They blanket the Earth as a storm blankets the sky, but the sun will never…

— Courtney Allison Moulton

“He quite certainly shouldn't care: and still he feels a hot sick bubbling in his gut, as if he'd drunk turned milk, or been…

— Alex Ankarr

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.

— Julie White

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

— Frederick Lenz

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a…

— Ian Mckellen

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for…

— Zach Gilford

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English…

— Ken Robinson

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

— Patty Loveless

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

— Don Van Vliet