I believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!' — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.” — Peter Saccio Copy Share Image
If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.” — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me. — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed… — Mark Williams Copy Share Image
“Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Gardener: ...Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer,… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image