Shakespeare Quotes · Page 16

“What is that, Shakespeare?" "Betty Crocker, a fascinating woman.”

— Kami Garcia

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

— Martin Freeman

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

— John Keats

I've done some Shakespeare and I was really scared, but I am pleased I did it.

— Amanda Redman

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

— Olivia Thirlby

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

— Victor Hugo

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

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

— Kelli O'Hara

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

— Tom Hooper

“Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.”

— Samuel Johnson

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to…

— Kelly McGillis

I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I…

— Roger Rees

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked…

— Frank Langella

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the…

— John Tiffany

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely…

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most…

— Agatha Christie

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns…

— Milan Kundera

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all…

— Walter Kaufmann

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a…

— Walter Isaacson

Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They…

— Roger Rees

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

— Mark Gatiss

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

“This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!”

— Kathy Bryson

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

— Sam Heughan

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

— Orson Welles

I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare.

— Dakin Matthews

“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.”

— Peter Saccio

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

— Mickey Spillane

I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!'

— Colin Mochrie

“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.”

— Marc Norman

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

— Kelly Reilly

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

— Martha MacCallum

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

— Oscar Isaac

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!

— Robert Browning

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

— Andre Holland