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Shakespeare Quotes by Simon Callow
- Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.
- Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
- Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.
- You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is…
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- The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! — Robert Browning
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he… — James M. Barrie
- Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. — Brendan Behan
- I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and… — Orlando Bloom
- One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of… — Kenneth Branagh
- In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
- As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.… — Leonard Cohen
- I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for… — Karen Allen