Always Quote by Christian Cooke

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one…

— Harriet Walter

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

— Roger Rees

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

— Andre Holland

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of…

— Al Pacino

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

— Lenny Henry

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

— Tim Crouch

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

— Rufus Wainwright

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

— Courtney B. Vance

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other…

— Joss Whedon