435 Shakespeare Quotes for You to Enjoy

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. Steven Moffat

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Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare. Steven Pinker

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Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on. Steven Pinker

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In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. Susan Hill

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The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other. Sylvester Stallone

I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth. Tamara Tunie

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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry. Tamsin Greig

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. Ted Lange

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If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there. Teller

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I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance. Thomas Ian Griffith

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer. Timothy Dalton

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I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions. Tom Bateman

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As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right. Tom Sturridge

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African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka. Tracie Thoms

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

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The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. Trevor Nunn

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My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me. Vanessa Kirby

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

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I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park. Ving Rhames

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I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues. Vinny Guadagnino

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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. William Kempe

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York. William Mapother

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