Quotes About Shakespeare

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.

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

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

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

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

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.