If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really. — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare. — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed. — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech. — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of stage combat over the years, and I've loved it. Started in college with William Shakespeare. I've always… — Brad Leland Copy Share Image
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2 — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be… — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of… — Charles Nicholl Copy Share Image
“I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
All I've learned in today's Shakespeare class is: Sometimes you have to fall in love with the wrong person just so you… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“My love, I have tried with all my being to grasp a form comparable to thine own, but nothing seems worthy; I… — Anthony Kolos Copy Share Image
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