Being Quote by James McAvoy

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

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

— Ray Fearon

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read…

— Ryan North

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have…

— Michelle Dockery

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

— Ashish Sharma

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

— Martin Freeman

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

I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon…

— Sophie Okonedo

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

— Eric Bischoff

I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational…

— Melvyn Bragg