Figure Quote by Michael Tippett

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

— Laurence Olivier

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.

— Tom Bateman

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

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

— Roger Rees

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

— Jeanette Winterson

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Michelle Dockery

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were…

— William Wordsworth

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

— Matt Lucas

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem