Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
DANIEL CRAIG "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
DAN DEVINE Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to rea...
BRIAN ARMSTRONG This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets hav...
ROBERT MORSE We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
DYAN CANNON People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I...
HUGH LAURIE Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.
PETER PORTER Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
PHILIP MASSINGER Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU Shakespeare,
JOSEPH FIENNES I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
TED RALL It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and wh...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian ...
HAROLD BLOOM I think the festival does a good job of making Shakespeare accessible and helping to dispel this myt...
ROD WOEHLER In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
KENNETH BRANAGH England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Shakespeare: The Biography,
PETER ACKROYD It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En...
LAFCADIO HEARN Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme,
Have not we sworn it, many a time,
That we no more our ver...
RICHARD WATSON GILDER Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.
KATE O'MARA Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
ANTOINE FUQUA I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.
DAVID HEWSON If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
ITZHAK PERLMAN The Frank Sinatra of Shakespeare.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so el...
RICHARD MCCABE When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in ...
D.H. LAWRENCE Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.
JOSEPHINE HULL Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
MANDY PATINKIN The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespear...
JOHN LOGAN I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
IAN FLEMING It was more exacting than Shakespeare. Every stammer was scripted.
JAMES FOLEY I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between th...
TREVOR NUNN The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers...
ROGER REES Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTH After God, Shakespeare has created most
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE My parents are big Shakespeare fans.
ELLIE KENDRICK Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
SAM WATERSTON I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of sch...
KRISTEN CONNOLLY Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakes...
ANTONY SHER In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN Everybody does Shakespeare differently. I'm trying to bring another feel to the piece. Shakespeare p...
JAKE KELLY It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
DAVID DENMAN "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged charac...
ERIC WALTERS Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
JEANETTE WINTERSON My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
MAGGIE SMITH I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
ALLAN CARR Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!
DEREK JARMAN I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it ...
ALEXI ZENTNER I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of th...
KENNETH BRANAGH I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
OLIVIA THIRLBY I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS In Britain, we have diverse cultural elements that converge in Shakespeare and in India, we find ele...
TIM SUPPLE Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, n...
CHARLTON HESTON Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think ...
GEORGE III Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think ...
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless yo...
STEVEN PINKER I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE I think so few kids rarely see theater anymore, especially Shakespeare. When they see it performed w...
LESLIE HUNTER I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and ...
JAMES AVERY I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Bec...
NEIL MACGREGOR For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the...
ISMAIL KADARE To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.
DEAN GILMOUR The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
ALEX COX Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in ...
BEAU WILLIMON To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN I love violent Shakespeare. It is to me what steak is to some people: the bloodier the better.
MARA WILSON We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespear...
UTA HAGEN People always talk about Shakespeare being a very contemporary playwright. This production shows you...
JAMES MORRISON Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
ZOE WANAMAKER I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and...
BEN OKRI Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
SIMON CALLOW I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's p...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could ...
THOMAS BOWDLER I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
FINN WITTROCK It's like trying to teach Shakespeare to a monkey.
HUGH PIERCE We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.
ADA PALMER A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO