Shakespeare Quotes · Page 14

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

— Ted Lange

“Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.”

— John Green

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

— Steve Coogan

Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!

— Louise Rennison

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

— Mark Rylance

“If anyone can inspire you to believe in real, honest-to-God love stories again, it's William Shakespeare.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

— Finn Wolfhard

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

— Jones Very

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

— James McAvoy

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

— Robert Benchley

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was…

— George III

“He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to…

— Nina LaCour

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

— Roger Rees

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game.…

— Tim Crouch

“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?”

— Lenore Look

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

— Roger Rees

“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she…

— John Green

“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And…

— William Shakespeare

When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No…

— Suzanne Weyn

“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to…

— Peter Porter

“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,…

— W.H. Auden

“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But…

— Mark Forsyth

“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in…

— Ronald Carter

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we…

— Jasper Fforde

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

— Margaret Atwood

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

— Tim Crouch

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

— Raquel Cepeda

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

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

— Laurence Olivier

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

— Vint Cerf

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

— Peter Riegert

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

— Terri Windling

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

— Eloisa James

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

— Orlando Bloom

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

— Denzel Washington

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

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

— Joss Whedon