Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry.… — Diane Wakoski
If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane… — Paul Westhead
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an… — Al Pacino
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. — Edward T. Hall
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have… — Nathalie Sarraute
The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. — Kenneth Branagh
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible… — Howard Barker
I have grown up loving Shakespeare. — Ralph Fiennes
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look… — Ralph Fiennes
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind… — Lawrence Kasdan
I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare… — Hayley Atwell
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced. — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that… — Dick Bruna
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. — Elizabeth Banks
In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London. — Jim Broadbent
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. — Alan Cumming
I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish. — Allen Carr
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead… — Ally Carter
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. — Jack L. Chalker
Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life. — Simon Callow

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