Currents Quote by John Dos Passos

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

— Derek Jarman

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

— Jim Broadbent

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

— Chris Cornell

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of…

— George Edward Woodberry

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less…

— Horace Walpole

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done…

— Raymond Chandler

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

— Campbell Scott

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

— Katharine Lee Bates

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of…

— Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three…

— Al Pacino

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but…

— Rhys Ifans