Shakespeare Quotes

770 Shakespeare quotes by 554 unique authors

My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor.… — Christine Ebersole
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped… — Madonna Ciccone
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol
I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we… — Christine Woods
I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with… — Stephen Mangan
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the… — Phil Daniels
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera. — Robert Wilson
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen… — John Logan
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer… — F. Sionil Jose
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery… — Vidya Balan
A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences… — Tim Crouch
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work. — Tim Crouch
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything. — Tim Crouch
Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. — Tim Crouch
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work. — Tim Crouch
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing… — Amish Tripathi
My parents are big Shakespeare fans. — Unknown Author
I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained… — Vicky McClure
London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else,… — Neil MacGregor
I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about… — Neil MacGregor
You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play. — Michelle Dockery
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. — Ion Tiriac
I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical… — John Cullum
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip… — Guy Davenport
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play… — Lajos Egri

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