Shakespeare Quotes · Page 15

“Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!”

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

Shakespeare's a fraud??!! Then who am I supposed to be pretending that I've read?!

— Anonymous

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at…

— Samuel Barnett

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the…

— Edward Abbey

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under…

— Samuel West

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly…

— Tim Curry

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar…

— Kate Winslet

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when…

— Alfred B. Douglas

The range of Shakespeare's characters is just enormous. Each one of them, whether it's a man or woman, prince or pauper, hero…

— Kunal Kapoor

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

— Howard Jacobson

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow…

— Catherine Tate

“We've been told that with regard to seduction, "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but in truth, rather, properly selected: "candy…

— Rick Doblin

“The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving…

— Ronald Carter

The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen…

— Kevin Spacey

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever…

— Rhys Ifans

“There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he…

— John Szarkowski

“When she was a child, she'd often wondered about the old manor. Some said the place was haunted, but she thought it…

— Melanie Dobson

Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

— James Joyce

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

— Vanessa Redgrave

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

— Stan Lee

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare said all the worlds a stage if it is then I suggest you to perform better than anyone else.

— Vikrant Parsai

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

— Renee O'Connor

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

— Amy Koppelman

“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”

— Adam Phillips Going Sane

If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.

— Chris Jericho

“How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!”

— George Bernard Shaw

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

— Christopher Eccleston

Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?

— Shirley Jackson

As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

— Zoe Wanamaker

“Quality is quality,” Jin said. “Age is irrelevant. No one bitches about Shakespeare fans.”

— Andy Weir