All Quotes

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

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
‐‐ Charlton Heston

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
‐‐ Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.
‐‐ Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.
‐‐ Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
‐‐ Sam Heughan

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
‐‐ Vanessa Redgrave

Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
‐‐ Jack O'Brien

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
‐‐ Edward Hall

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.
‐‐ Katharine Lee Bates

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
‐‐ Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
‐‐ Lord Byron

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
‐‐ Al Pacino

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
‐‐ Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
‐‐ James McAvoy

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
‐‐ Zoe Wanamaker

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

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

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
‐‐ Brendan Behan

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
‐‐ Zoe Wanamaker

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.
‐‐ Chris Adrian

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
‐‐ Simon Callow

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
‐‐ Condola Rashad

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
‐‐ Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
‐‐ H. C. Bunner

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
‐‐ Alex Cox

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
‐‐ Harold Bloom

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.
‐‐ John Sununu

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.
‐‐ Sister Souljah

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
‐‐ Simon Callow

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.
‐‐ Leonard Maltin

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
‐‐ Althea Gibson

Shaking's great. Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped. Yeah, I would recommend it.
‐‐ Jerome Flynn

Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.
‐‐ Jerome Flynn

Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner.
‐‐ Ken Salazar

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.
‐‐ Jim Ratcliffe

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
‐‐ Norman Douglas

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a good big, stupid American movie.
‐‐ Stephen Hunter