Shakespeare Quotes · Page 11

“William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?”

— Marc Norman

“I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.”

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

— Daniel Craig

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

— Louise Jameson

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

— Alan Arkin

“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

— Ai Weiwei

“I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.”

— Anonymous

“My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me…

— Lisa Kessler

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right,…

— T.S. Eliot

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you…

— Joseph Fiennes

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for…

— Alexis Denisof

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the…

— Al Pacino

When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age…

— Horace Walpole

“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons,…

— J.R. Partington

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so…

— Richard Armour

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist…

— Sarah Jones

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very…

— Samuel Barnett

The next time someone tells you that Shakespeare is irrelevant, tell him that the Bard wrote his greatest play about George W.…

— Norah Vincent

“Alongside the development of theatres came the growth of an acting culture; in essence it was the birth of the acting profession.…

— Ronald Carter

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more.…

— Dustin Hoffman

I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert,…

— Luanne Rice

“Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.”

— William Shakespeare

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

— Edward Bond

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Shakespeare says: "God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.

— Cole Porter

“Turns out there’s a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.”

— Kathy Bryson

“T he a n swer to the que s t ion "Why Shakespeare?" must b e "Who e l s e i…

— Anonymous

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

— Jennifer Donnelly

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

— Peter Brook

“You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?”

— William Shakespeare

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

— Ion Tiriac

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

— M. H. Abrams

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

— Ian Mckellen

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

— Maxine Peake

“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.”

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

— LaTanya Richardson