Quotes About Shakespeare

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

There is a special department of Hell for students of probability. In this department there are many typewriters and many monkeys. Every time that a monkey walks on a typewriter, it types by chance one of Shakespeare's sonnets.

as Shakespeare says: "What's to come is still unsure." Even the shrewdest men are apt to be wildly astray if they prophecy so much as 10 years ahead. Some people will consider this doctrine immoral, but after all it is the Gospel which says "take no thought for the morrow.

And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to his honesty and his ability and his nose and the shape of his feet and his blue blood and his energy and what-have-you, and all the time, I was dying to quote that smart old Billy Shakespeare who was just as wordy as she was: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

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.

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

On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.

What do I believe? In the private life, in holding up culture, in music, Shakespeare, old buildings…

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100 000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

Sin embargo una convicción caprichosa me ha acompañado desde siempre: la de que Shakespeare era en realidad un novelista que no había encontrado su medio

Hamlet o Macbeth se leen maravillosamente hoy; muy al contrario, me parece, de lo que ocurre con tantos otros que dependen de la escena