Audience Quote by Condola Rashad

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the…

— Joseph Fiennes

“If anyone can inspire you to believe in real, honest-to-God love stories again, it's William Shakespeare.”

— Ashley Herring Blake

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is…

— Al Pacino

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous…

— Steve Antin

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you…

— Laura Riding

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil…

— Harold Pinter

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

— Jed Mercurio

“You lying liar," Vaan said, "who lies to me with lies. Nobody actually likes Shakespeare! They just pretend to sound more cultural and pretentious.”

— A.D. Truax

“Reader, do not doubt the truth of my words, for the tale I tell is a lie from beginning to end. It is often…

— Noémi Szécsi

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

— Richard Flanagan

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

— Stephen Frears