You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you…

Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like.…

— Stan Lee

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

— Don Winslow

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.

— Kate Winslet

“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party…

— Glen Duncan

“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after…

— Leo Tolstoy

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on…

— Mark Burnett

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying.…

— Ray Winstone

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play…

— Ian Mcewan

A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare because the…

— Hugo Weaving

When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William…

— Ellen Burstyn

I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English text how…

— John Kani

“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?”

— Virginia Woolf

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read…

— Robin Hobb

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as…

— William Kempe