I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too… — Ro James Copy Share Image
I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The Diverted Imperium by Stewart Stafford Welcome to my lush vineyard, As we crush poison grapes, Forcing that last vinegar sip, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another,… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved’st him better / Than… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must… — Terry Hands Copy Share Image
I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. — Samira Wiley Copy Share Image
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare… — Kevin Durand Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a… — Phil Daniels Copy Share Image
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare asked what’s in a name. Well, each of my clones won’t be named the same as me, but they’ll be me… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare taught me everything I know about love. Its vibrancy. How afterwards your life seems darker. And everything I know about power,… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare doesn't use flashbacks, and his characters are more likely to philosophize than to remember. (Margot Livesey)” — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers.… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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