Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully…

“The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving the Middle…

— Ronald Carter

“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.

— Henry Cejudo

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language…

— George Bernard Shaw

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken…

— Felicity Kendal

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

— Oscar Wilde

'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'

— Sarah Palin

I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind…

— Mandy Patinkin

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so…

— Christine Woods

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

— Mandy Patinkin

I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film about a…

— Michelle Dockery

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

— Kevin Spacey

“This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!”

— Kathy Bryson

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

— Samuel Barnett