457 Quotes About Shakespeare

In fact, Shakespeare was right when he said ‘twice a babe once a man’. We are born into the world as helpless, weak infants, and some of us end our lives as vulnerable, frail adults, unable to speak coherently, or do even the simplest tasks.

[Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements.

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

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

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.