I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I…

“After dinner the babies get fussy and Min puts a mush of ice cream and Hershey's syrup in their bottles and we watch The…

— George Saunders

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

— Zooey Deschanel

When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.

— Thea Sharrock

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

— Henry Norman Hudson

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

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 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

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

“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

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

— Patty Loveless

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

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

— Anne Fortier

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