Shakespeare Quotes
770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors
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The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the…
— Trevor Nunn
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At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.
— Kelly Reilly
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Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I…
— Geoffrey Rush
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I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he…
— Mary Roach
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As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.
— Ron Rash
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
— Ted Rall
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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
— Ray Stevenson
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You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
— Janet Suzman
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If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be…
— Mark Strong
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Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.
— Frederick Lenz
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Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.
— Christine Taylor
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And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the…
— Julie Taymor
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I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
— Sharon Tate
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I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.
— Jim Varney
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I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple…
— Timothy Simons
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I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it…
— Chris Messina
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In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
— William Mapother
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy…
— Olivia Williams
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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
— Sam Waterston
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An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be…
— Glenn Ford
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People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.
— Dominick Dunne
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Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.
— Robin Williams
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Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.
— Anthony Burgess
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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
— John Lithgow
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For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example…
— C. V. Wedgwood
Who Wrote These Shakespeare Quotes
554 authors contributed a total of 770 Shakespeare Quotes, led by these top contributors: