I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I've done some Shakespeare and I was really scared, but I am pleased I did it. — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. — Anonymous 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
“That's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high… — Huxley, Aldous Copy Share Image
I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one… — James Callis Copy Share Image
I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and… — JoJo Copy Share Image
“I suppose the fundamental distinction between Shakespeare and myself is one of treatment. We get our effects differently. Take the familiar farcical… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image