Shakespeare Quotes · Page 22

“Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.”

— Kathy Bryson

“I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.”

— William Shakespeare

“What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.”

— Michael Cunningham

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

“This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.”

— Kathy Bryson

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

— Clark Gregg

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.

— Richard McCabe

“There’s no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.”

— Kathy Bryson

I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for…

— Madeline Brewer

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust…

— M. C. Gainey

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre…

— Tim Crouch

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret…

— Andy Serkis

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of…

— Oscar Isaac

Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a…

— Antony Sher

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a…

— Charles Churchill

“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity:…

— Jennifer Lee Carrell

“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a…

— Steven Berkoff

“I began to recall my own experience when I was Mercutio’s age (late teens I decided, a year or two older than…

— Roger Allam

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had…

— Neil MacGregor

“CREONTA: Rope! My rope! Hang those two thieves by the neck until they are dead. THE ROPE: Alack, but vile and ill-natured…

— Hillary DePiano

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

— John Cooper Clarke

“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”

— William Shakespeare

“She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.”

— William Shakespeare

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Steve Coogan

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

— John Green

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

— Ted Lange

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

— Tim Crouch

[Thine] face is not worth sunburning. William Shakespeare, Henry V

— William Shakespear

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

— Daniel Craig

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

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Jones Very

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

— Finn Wolfhard

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

— Ashley Herring Blake

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

— Louise Rennison