I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic. — Jim Varney Copy Share Image
“There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.” — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.” — Lynn Steward Copy Share Image
“He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.” — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One… — Peggy Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
“...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead. THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured… — Hillary DePiano Copy Share Image
“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseththe disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?” — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man. — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves -William Shakespeare — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years Will Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.” — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love. — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work. — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Thou art a very ragged Wart. William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
You speak an infinite deal of nothing. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“T he a n swer to the que s t ion "Why Shakespeare?" must b e "Who e l s e i… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow. — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. — Ion Tiriac Copy Share Image