Classics Quote by Naseeruddin Shah

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

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond…

— Alexis Denisof

All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we know about…

— John Irving

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

— Michael Tippett

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

— Kelly Asbury

“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more…

— Ronald Carter

Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe?…

— Bryan Procter

I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay…

— Joyce Carol Oates

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

— James McAvoy