Shakespearean Quotes

35 quotes by 32 authors

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere… — Richard Branson
If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. — Lucy Liu
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. — John Lithgow
Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play. — Renee O'Connor
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a… — Christopher McDougall
In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone. — Tom Morello
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire… — Joseph Epstein
These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check… — Robertson Davies
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any… — Mark Rylance
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate.… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is… — Keith Devlin
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is… — Jack Prelutsky
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we… — Timothy Dalton
No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean. — Harold Bloom
American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on… — George Mikes
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the… — Michelle Dockery
I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia. — Nancy Grace
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than… — Carrie P Snow

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