Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
A new report claims that William Shakespeare was a marijuana user and may have been high when he wrote some of his… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shakespeare put characters in extreme circumstances, all over his plays. Therefore their behaviour becomes extreme, in ways that can be both extremely… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Newton: but a lot of the guys here were in prison before they came here and they’ll still be in prison when… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“An Eleventh Pretender by Stewart Stafford Pardon me, thou art king Of paling November’s hedgerow, Demanding fealty from December, That crowns the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness,… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Come, all sad and solemn shows, That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes! We convènt naught else but woes. William Shakespeare” — George Chityil Copy Share Image
“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
I liked that line in the movie 'Shakespeare in Love': 'How is this going to work out? I don't know, but it… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I feel like Shakespeare is so epic, in a way that sci-fi genre stuff is epic, it transcends the mundane, and it… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad. — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually produce the complete works… — James Browning Copy Share Image
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
![“Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]” quote by William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/337/william-shakespeare-4_acting_totus-mundus-agit-histrionem-all-the-wor_1142758.jpg)
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