If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Im not Shakespeare to write about U, I Am Not Shelley To Sing About U, I Am Not Piccasso To Paint u,… — Kaceem Madridista Copy Share Image
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
“Hark,” he said, his tone very dry. “What stone through yonder window breaks?” Kami yelled up at him, “It is the east,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
“The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with… — David Furnish Copy Share Image
When I was 14 I was really taciturn - I hardly said a word - but then I auditioned for Shylock. With… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior. And I think… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare.… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare,… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
I think every New York actor's dream is to do Shakespeare in the Park. Each show is so special and unique and… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
Weve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was… — George III Copy Share Image
“He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
“Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’?” — Lenore Look Copy Share Image
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game.… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
Something like Shakespeare in Love, which became such an established hit that it now seems like a foregone conclusion... but it really… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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