Shakespeare Quotes · Page 14

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

— Arthur Smith

You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

— William Shakespear

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

— Robert Browning

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

— Richard Flanagan

I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of…

— John Lithgow

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

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

I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for…

— Madeline Brewer

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than…

— Vivien Leigh

“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

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and…

— Nicolas Roeg

“I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and…

— Vanessa Kirby

“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every…

— Stephen King

“William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife…

— Marc Norman

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

— Alanis Morissette

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

— Steven Spielberg

“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

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

— Ted Lange

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

— Daniel Craig

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

“Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.”

— John Green

“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