Shakespeare Quotes

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

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

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

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

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.