For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right. — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king. — Josephine Hull Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think a Welsh accent would be suited to Shakespeare. — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we… — Ajay Naidu Copy Share Image
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I find Shakespeare surprisingly sexual. A lot of his language - a lot - has that kind of sexual innuendo that is… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality… — Satya Bhabha Copy Share Image
I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D.… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
“When she was a child, she'd often wondered about the old manor. Some said the place was haunted, but she thought it… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
“Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane," Flora said, walking beside Chad. "She is the greatest writer to have ever lived." "I thought… — Krista McGee Copy Share Image
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
