Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. Votes: 5
James JoyceI have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Votes: 4
Charles DarwinI am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Votes: 4
Kanye WestIbsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary. Votes: 3
John Cameron MitchellAfter Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. Votes: 3
Claire TomalinIt's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Judi DenchShakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings. Votes: 3
Vanessa RedgraveUnless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. Votes: 3
Alan ArkinShakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings Votes: 3
Vanessa RedgraveWhen Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material. Votes: 3
Renee O'ConnorThe way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. Votes: 3
Ray StevensonI cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Louise JamesonWith Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. Votes: 3
Oscar IsaacTo see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. Votes: 3
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. Votes: 3
Horace WalpoleO friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! Votes: 3
Virginia WoolfWith Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you? Votes: 3
Peter HambletonExcept physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Greta GarboWorking on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me. Votes: 3
Andre HollandDramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. Votes: 3
Nicholas SparksThe greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. Votes: 3
Sandra BoyntonAs Shakespeare said, there's nothin' cooler than droppin' the 'g's off of gerunds! Votes: 3
Stephen ColbertAny good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. Votes: 3
Denzel WashingtonShakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature. Votes: 3
Kelli O'HaraWho is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? Votes: 3
Robert A. HeinleinI would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares. Votes: 3
William BatesonPeople are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. Votes: 3
Dominick DunneAfter Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? Votes: 3
Dejan StojanovicThe Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information! Votes: 3
Ken LudwigI have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Lewis F. Powell Jr.Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air. Votes: 3
Josh BillingsAnd one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites. Votes: 3
Thomas MoreNobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Votes: 3
Jeanette WintersonKeeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness. Votes: 3
Tim CrouchAll religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. Votes: 3
Robert Green IngersollThe filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera Votes: 3
Lenny HenryIn school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. Votes: 3
Aya CashShakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Votes: 3
Eugene IonescoSimon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. Votes: 3
Claire TomalinNature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made. Votes: 3
Charles ChurchillDylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel. Votes: 3
George HarrisonShakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines. Votes: 3
Michelle DockeryIn his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. Votes: 3
Samuel JohnsonI'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. Votes: 3
Peter CapaldiDoing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that. Votes: 3
Richard MaddenPlaying Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king. Votes: 3
Josephine HullI think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition, Votes: 3
Sharon GlessThe passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. Votes: 3
Sharon GlessIf you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there. Votes: 3
TellerShakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers." Votes: 3
Lloyd AlexanderOn the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Scott TurowBut Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. Votes: 3
John DrydenI love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Votes: 3
Daniel WoodrellOne of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring. Votes: 3
Kenneth BranaghShakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. Votes: 3
Anna TorvShakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. Votes: 3
Simon CallowTo me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears. Votes: 3
John FosterShakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. Votes: 3
Lloyd AlexanderShakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. Votes: 3
Lord ByronPlaying Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. Votes: 3
Kevin KlineI suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head. Votes: 3
P. G. WodehouseIn another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Susan HillI love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. Votes: 3
Elizabeth BanksLincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. Votes: 3
Jonathan RabanWith Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play. Votes: 3
John C. McGinleyShakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada. Votes: 3
VoltaireIf the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. Votes: 3
Mickey SpillaneShakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. Votes: 3
Simon CallowA fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Edgar Allan PoeShakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Sam HeughanShakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Sam HeughanI've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. Votes: 3
Anthony HopkinsFor me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie. Votes: 3
Douglas BoothSomehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself. Votes: 3
Duke EllingtonIf there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out. Votes: 3
Robert BenchleyI can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. Votes: 3
Walter RaleighI love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. Votes: 3
Mark GatissI want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words. Votes: 3
Sanober KhanShakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' Votes: 3
Simon CallowFor me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything. Votes: 3
Pablo CasalsI've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines. Votes: 3
Daniel CraigIf you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. Votes: 3
Jack L. ChalkerTwitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Eric SchmidtIt's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play. Votes: 3
Mark RylanceI am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. Votes: 3
Ion TiriacIt is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. Votes: 3
Isak DinesenSubtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. Votes: 3
Charles Caleb ColtonShakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. Votes: 3
Bertrand RussellBut I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction. Votes: 3
Rufus WainwrightI am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeIt would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawI used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson. Votes: 3
Margaret AtwoodThe life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. Votes: 3
Charles DickensI think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. Votes: 3
Louis AuchinclossIf you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education. Votes: 3
Tallulah BankheadI believe it was Shakespeare who said, 'All the world's a stage, and you are CRAP!' Votes: 3
Colin MochrieI think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest. Votes: 3
Matt LucasMy career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. Votes: 3
Maggie SmithIn the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York. Votes: 3
William MapotherI'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love. Votes: 3
Eddie MurphyShakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave. Votes: 3
Dean KoontzWe can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. Votes: 3
T. S. EliotSometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much. Votes: 3
Basil RathboneI read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Votes: 3
Tallulah BankheadI'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. Votes: 3
Neil Patrick HarrisIt was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. Votes: 3
Jessica LangeDid you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once? Votes: 3
William F. Buckley, Jr.Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! Votes: 3
Robert BrowningI'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park. Votes: 3
Meat LoafYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage? Votes: 3
Stan LeeIf there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. Votes: 3
George OrwellI don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare. Votes: 3
Emma WatsonMy writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. Votes: 3
Dick SchaapThe aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Votes: 3
Robert BrowningNothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious. Votes: 3
Claire TomalinI want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth. Votes: 3
Tamara TunieWhen I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role! Votes: 3
Joseph FiennesI would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West. Votes: 3
Alex TrebekIf I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play Votes: 3
Tupac ShakurThere is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare Votes: 3
William ShakespeareSexo: lo que sucede en diez minutos es algo que excede a todo el vocabulario de Shakespeare.
Robert Louis StevensonI think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. Votes: 2 Alan Cumming
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. Votes: 1 Ian Fleming
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage. Votes: 1 Eric Walters
I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Banks
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Votes: 3 William Shakespeare
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. Votes: 1 Tallulah Bankhead
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. Votes: 3 Tayari Jones
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world. Votes: 1 Kenneth Branagh
In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several. Votes: 3 Ian Doescher
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. Votes: 1 Mark Gatiss
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended. Votes: 1 Arthur Smith
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare. Votes: 2 Sam Heughan
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. Votes: 1 Anne Stevenson
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. Votes: 2 Captain Beefheart
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. Votes: 1 William Collins
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Votes: 1 Jackson Browne
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels. Votes: 1 Ntozake Shange
In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. Votes: 1 Aya Cash
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play Votes: 4 Tupac Shakur
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters... Votes: 4 C. S. Lewis
There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter? Votes: 6 C. S. Lewis
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. Votes: 1 Ian Hart
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. Votes: 2 William Shakespeare
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. Votes: 1 Sharon Gless
For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie. Votes: 3 Douglas Booth