Coal Quote by Peter Brook

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

— Eric Bischoff

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 wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

— LaTanya Richardson

I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal.

— Rebecca Serle

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

We've seen Shakespeare done a billion times to make it seem relevant today. We love period dramas. We love to long for a time…

— Claudia Jessie

“I still contend that Shakespeare is a dirty old man.”

— Stephanie Riggs

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I don't think…

— Naseeruddin Shah

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

— Zach Braff

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that…

— Stephen Greenblatt

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

— Kool Keith