Bed Quote by Kate Winslet

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by…

— Gilbert Highet

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will…

— Thom Gunn

Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet.

— Brook Lopez

“You cannot locate Shakespeare in his own works, not even in the sonnets. It is in this near invisibility that encourages the zealots who…

— Harold Bloom

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very intellectual.

— Geraldine James

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.

— Michael Rosen

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

— Voltaire

I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the…

— Nicolas Cage

You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play.

— Michelle Dockery

Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'

— John Kani

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing…

— Rufus Wainwright