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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

I'm as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching 'The Book of Mormon.'

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

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

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

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

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

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

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

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

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

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

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

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

I think there's something about a sylvan setting; you want grass and nature with outdoor Shakespeare.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

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

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