Canada Quote by Voltaire

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

— Samira Wiley

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of…

— Sam Wanamaker

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

— Anthony Hopkins

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times…

— Timothy Dalton

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

— Henry Norman Hudson

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

— Michael Tippett

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

— Alex Cox

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

— Campbell Scott

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

— Michelle Dockery

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

— Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

— Sam Wanamaker