Anything Quote by Jessie Buckley

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

— Mandy Patinkin

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language…

— Kenneth Branagh

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

— Ray Stevenson

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

— Orlando Bloom

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is.…

— Andre Holland

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 would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Patsy Rodenburg

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a…

— Ian Doescher

“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation,…

— Jennifer Lee Carrell