God Quote by Howard Jacobson

Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my…

— Ken Ludwig

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

— Jessie Buckley

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

— Don Van Vliet

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And…

— Howard Jacobson

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

— Henry Irving

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

— Sam Waterston

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to…

— Gene Simmons

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible.…

— Heinrich Heine

You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.

— Patsy Rodenburg

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

— Ray Fearon

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

— Bebe Neuwirth

I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I…

— John Tiffany