Actors Quote by Trevor Nunn

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

— Derek Jarman

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

— Michelle Dockery

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

— George Bernard Shaw

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

— Tim Crouch

One of the wonderful things about Shakespeare is that he trusted an audience to move quickly with him. One moment tragedy, the next comedy.

— Mariette Hartley

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

— Julie Taymor

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do…

— Julie Taymor

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor,…

— Zoe Wanamaker

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

— Judi Dench

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

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

— Renee O'Connor

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet…

— Ed Westwick