Shakespeare Quotes · Page 20

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

— Joss Whedon

I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.

— Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

— H. C. Bunner

“He thinks you were trapped in a tree in the 1920s. How is that not crazy?”

— Kathy Bryson

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

— John Tiffany

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

— Dominick Dunne

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

— Robert Wilson

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

— Claire Tomalin

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say,…

— Howard Barker

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth…

— Mark Akenside

“You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many…

— Rebecca Serle

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense,…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to…

— Julie Walters

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a…

— Ian Mcewan

“We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet,…

— Robert Wilensky

Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden…

— Ellen Burstyn

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions…

— Daniel Tammet

I had a fabulous teacher, my headmistress's husband, who taught Shakespeare for A-level, and then I found this person called William Shakespeare…

— Geraldine James

I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what…

— Henning Mankell

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseththe disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,…

— William Shakespeare

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

— Kristoffer Polaha

“Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: "Me conquisté yo misma".”

— William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare

— SangFroid Stalker

The magic word 'Shakespeare' always freezes you in your chair.

— Howard Jacobson

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

— Scott Turow

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

— Anna Torv

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

— Emma Watson

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

— Dejan Stojanovic

“My inner bitch could handle this peon without even breaking a sweat.”

— Kathy Bryson

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”

— Cassandra Giovanni

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

— Michelle Dockery

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

— Al Pacino

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

— Ron Rash

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! William Shakespeare, Henry IV: Part 1

— William Shakespear