“Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible… — Rhiannon McGavin Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Ribs closing on his heart, Will battled internal sirens whose song he couldn’t yet decipher. During his childhood, ‘sin’ had been such… — Ingela Bohm Copy Share Image
When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Must I observe you? Must I stand & crouch Under your testy humour? By the gods, You shall digest the venom of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school.… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Yeah, but I don’t know. There is something about the tragic stories of Shakespeare. It’s as if we all know how it… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said,… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to… — Glenn Ford Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare. No one reads Shakespeare in a bar unless it’s a ploy to pick up girls. All I’m saying is you might… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it… — Ingela Bohm Copy Share Image
I like Shakespeare, but it's not my bread and butter. It's not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
“Ladies, you deserve To have a temple built you: all the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“In the works of Shakespeare , the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“William Shakespeare - Romeo y Julieta ([email protected]) - Your Highlight on Location 65-66 | Added on Saturday, March 15, 2014 4:00:39 PM” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
![“[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements.” quote by Roger Allam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/roger-allam-7409_life_measure-for-measure-leaves-me-with-the-s_3001902.jpg)
