Shakespeare Quotes · Page 4

If you're gonna steal from somebody, why not Shakespeare?

— Alison Sudol

'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.

— Tom Stoppard

“What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Sweet sister, let me live." - Claudio, Act 3 Scene 1”

— William Shakespeare

“Maybe you’re worried that I won’t seduce you?”

— Kathy Bryson

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

— Ted Rall

“Shakespeare was an anti-Semite,”

— Anne Fadiman

I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

— John Clare

“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

— Samuel Johnson

“I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.”

— Jake Wizner

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

— Robert Morse

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

— Tommy Hilfiger

“You pretty much have to take the job since you hit him with the car.”

— Kathy Bryson

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

— Don Winslow

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

— Matthew Pearl

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so

— Dyan Cannon

“Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office…

— William Shakespeare

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to…

— Vinny Guadagnino

Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

— Joyce Carol Oates

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never…

— Hugh Jackman

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

— Carlton Cuse

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of…

— Simon Callow

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

— John Guare

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also…

— John Cullum

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

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with…

— David Furnish

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

In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her…

— Margaret Atwood

Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history.…

— Kelsey Grammer

[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He…

— David Bennun

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

“The Diverted Imperium by Stewart Stafford Welcome to my lush vineyard, As we crush poison grapes, Forcing that last vinegar sip, Of…

— Stewart Stafford

“Did Bach ever eat pancakes at midnight?”

— Nathan Reese Maher

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

— Al Pacino

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

— John Keats

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

— Joan Collins

Et tu, Brute? William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

— William Shakespear

Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.

— Steven Spielberg