457 Quotes About Shakespeare

Shakespeare should have said: Fear makes cowards of us all. The fear of being persecuted, ostracized, ridiculed, humiliated, of having to stand alone against the whole world.

I auditioned for the next play our director, Dominic, had lined up: A Midsummer Night's Dream, touring at several different parks in the Puget Sound area in July and August. Dominic cast me as Puck."A fairy?" Andy said, all innocence."I know you're not going to comment on that," I said."I could've made better jokes with 'Bottom.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

You don’t have to die in the next year if you die this year.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If so, is it the kind that Mum and Dad have? Based on having things in common, like raspberry picking and a love of dogs, and Shakespeare, and long country walks? Or is it the knock-you-out, eat-you-up, set-you-on-fire kind of love that I have longed for-and avoided-all my life?

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.