He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and…

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

— John Sununu

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

— Kool Keith

“A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

— Anonymous

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family,…

— Rob Lowe

“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not…

— John Updike

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than…

— Julia Stiles

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how…

— Chris Messina

“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can we look…

— Paul Barnes

I feel like Shakespeare is so epic, in a way that sci-fi genre stuff is epic, it transcends the mundane, and it takes you…

— David Harbour

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

— Josh Billings

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

— Tracy Letts

“What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest. " Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you can't get…

— Agatha Christie

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it…

— Imelda Staunton

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's…

— Oscar Isaac