Shakespeare Quotes · Page 13

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

“Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus , so you tell me.”

— John Scalzi

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

— Alanis Morissette

“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an…

— William Shakespeare

“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”

— Nathan Reese Maher

“He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”

— Washington Irving

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

— Ray Stevenson

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

— Kevin Kline

“Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn’t havevampires in it? Abby: They write books with no…

— Kersten Hamilton

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

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've…

— Gregory Doran

Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a…

— Antony Sher

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it,…

— Rufus Sewell

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

— Oscar Isaac

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the…

— Julie White

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something…

— Jane Smiley

“To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all…

— William Carlos Williams

There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are…

— Phyllida Lloyd

“Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again.…

— Frederick Buechner

Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile…

— Voltaire

“I hate the word superstar". I have never been able to think in those terms. They are overstatements. You don't hear them…

— James Cagney

“Usually, Shakespeare gives me goose bumps. The guy knows everything. Like some ancient angel quill-ing out blueprints life. Hiding it in fiction.…

— Jolene Stockman

“This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending…

— Shakespeare's Henry V

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

— Ted Lange

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

— Tim Crouch

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning. William Shakespeare, Henry V

— William Shakespear

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

— Steve Coogan

“If anyone can inspire you to believe in real, honest-to-God love stories again, it's William Shakespeare.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

— Mark Rylance

Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!

— Louise Rennison

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

— Margaret Atwood

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

— Finn Wolfhard

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

— John Cooper Clarke

“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”

— William Shakespeare

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

— Clark Gregg

“This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.”

— Kathy Bryson

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.

— Richard McCabe

“Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.”

— Ray Bradbury

“She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.”

— William Shakespeare