Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

Martin Freeman

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

Joss Whedon

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

John Clare

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Richard Madden

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Claire Tomalin

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Tim Crouch

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Clark Gregg

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Peter Riegert

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

Rabih Alameddine

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

Robert Wilson

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

James Avery

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Victor Hugo

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

Alan Arkin

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.