If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare. — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king. — Josephine Hull Copy Share Image
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right. — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare,… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready.… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people. — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
“Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” as Shakespeare put it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. — Ion Tiriac Copy Share Image
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
“You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“T he a n swer to the que s t ion "Why Shakespeare?" must b e "Who e l s e i… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Turns out there’s a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.” — Kathy Bryson Copy Share Image
