435 Shakespeare Quotes for You to Enjoy

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category. Iain McGilchrist

Sympathy Our Shakespeare Structure Individuals Demanded Stereotypes Category Commands Trump Hanged Refuses Unique Play

Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. Ian Doescher

Mind Holding Nothing Shakespeare Like Calls Hamlet Speaking Skull

In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage. Ian Doescher

Words Stage Ways William Battles Shakespeare Could Never Modeled Which Explain Wars Many Captured Star Chorus Star Wars Henry Elizabethan

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. Ian Hart

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you. Ian Mckellen

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

Sometimes Fabulous Shakespeare Know Well Because None Them Villains

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding. Imelda Staunton

Demanding Singing Think Extraordinary Find Shakespeare Sondheim Like Know Most Because How Doing Times Really Describe Satisfying Thing

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant. Ion Tiriac

Brilliant Shakespeare Tennis Written Am Were Stories Hemingway

I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created. J. K. Simmons

Job Way Musician Out Shakespeare Singer Arthur Get Just Taught Convey Created Your Miller Brilliance Started

I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger. Jack Whitehall

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Jackson Browne

Reading Mark Mark Twain Shakespeare Up Grew Twain

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. James Broughton

World Vision Out Shakespeare Parts Owe Wherein Theater Acting Humans

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. James Buchan

Politics School Too Much Long Too Drama Earned Our Promised Impatient Shakespeare Crown Throne Scheme Parliamentary He Merits Prince Read Knows Fret His Begins Subordination Which Much View

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.' James Callis

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned. James Fenton

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

Human Being Strong About Shakespeare Structured He Still Were Very Psyche Human Being Stories Fantastic Fundamental Things

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him. Jamie Campbell Bower

Learning People Remember School Language Drama About Shakespeare Both He Particularly Him Forefront Always Been English English Language English People Starting

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. Jeanette Winterson

Legend Rumor About Shakespeare Nobody Knows Person Anything

Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company. Jeremy Irons

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