Shakespeare Quotes · Page 14

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

— William F. Buckley, Jr

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

— Terri Windling

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

— Peter Riegert

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

— Denzel Washington

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

— Orlando Bloom

Drama, drama, drama with tons of victim scripts Shakespeare said the worlds a stage isn't it time for a new script.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

— Raquel Cepeda

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust…

— M. C. Gainey

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret…

— Andy Serkis

“Today in this household's obsession with researching pointless questions, I can confirm that Shakespeare cannot, in fact, ever have had a banana.”

— Debra Ferreday

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

“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

“Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the…

— William Shakespeare

Having ground my teeth at educational theorists who say Shakespeare is irrelevant to inner-city children, I was overjoyed to be there when…

— Damian Green

“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most…

— Nikita Gill

“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,…

— Ronald Carter

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

— Horace Walpole

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

— Tracy Letts

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.

— Tom Bateman

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

— Denis Diderot

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

— William Shatner

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

— Tracy Keenan Wynn

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

— Joss Whedon

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

— Duke Ellington

“I have ridden out all the storms,” said Shakespeare, “even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…”

— Jeanette Winterson

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

— Gore Vidal

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

— Al Pacino

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

— Ron Rash

“The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.”

— Kim Askew

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! William Shakespeare, Henry IV: Part 1

— William Shakespear

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni