435 Shakespeare Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge. Orlando Bloom

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

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles

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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. Oscar Isaac

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. Oscar Isaac

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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. Oscar Wilde

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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort. Patrick Rothfuss

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I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth. Peter Abrahams

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Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept. Peter Brook

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

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I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted. Phil Robertson

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Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are written that are kind of the fingerprints of the first person who played that role, and so I like to think of it as a road map. Phillipa Soo

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Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time. Phyllida Lloyd

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The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare. Pilou Asbaek

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The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. Powers Boothe

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

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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that. Ralph Fiennes

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I have grown up loving Shakespeare. Ralph Fiennes

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In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor has to raise their game to get there. Ray Fearon

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All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death. Ray Winstone

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I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal. Rebecca Serle

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Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are aware, I think. Rebecca Serle

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

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