Shakespeare Quotes · Page 23

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

— Mark Rylance

“He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”

— Washington Irving

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

— Steven Spielberg

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

— Kevin Kline

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

— Ray Stevenson

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

— Samuel Johnson

“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an…

— William Shakespeare

“Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus , so you tell me.”

— John Scalzi

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it,…

— Rufus Sewell

London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better…

— Neil MacGregor

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've…

— Gregory Doran

I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears…

— Andre Braugher

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? -…

— George III

“Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn’t havevampires in it? Abby: They write books with no…

— Kersten Hamilton

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got,…

— Cass McCombs

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with…

— Ian Hart

Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where…

— Al Pacino

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide…

— Julie Taymor

I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.…

— George Henry Lewes

“Kneel not, gentle Portia. Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,…

— William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:…

— William Shakespeare

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the…

— Samuel Johnson

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.…

— Madonna Ciccone

Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so…

— Andrea Riseborough

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

— Alanis Morissette

“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”

— Nathan Reese Maher

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

— Mary Ruefle

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

— Denis Diderot

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

— Tracy Keenan Wynn

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Joss Whedon

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

— Duke Ellington

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

— William Shatner

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

— Horace Walpole

Shakespeare writes such wonderful parts for women, parts that work so well today. I think he really liked women.

— Geraldine James

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

— James Broughton

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.

— Tom Bateman

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

— Tracy Letts

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