For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound… — Perpetua Langley Copy Share Image
Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
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.… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller,… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us.… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can… — Paul Barnes Copy Share Image
“But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“You've circled the globe to find yourself in the Globe,milady." Bill sketched a little bow. "The Globe Theatre? " Luce ducked as… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
I feel like Shakespeare is so epic, in a way that sci-fi genre stuff is epic, it transcends the mundane, and it… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I come from the world of theater, and I know Noel Coward's writing well. He has such a specific voice, and was… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
I like Shakespeare, but it's not my bread and butter. It's not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
Something like Shakespeare in Love, which became such an established hit that it now seems like a foregone conclusion... but it really… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“What's wrong with Shakespeare?" I{Jerry} inquired in interest. " Twisting himself up to say things in such a difficult way that you… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare,… — Thomas Ian Griffith Copy Share Image
