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I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.
I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really.
At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.
Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
I'd love Shakey Bill to tell me a story - I mean, William Shakespeare, he could squeak a nib couldn't he?
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.
I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
I think that one of the reasons Shakespeare withstands the test of time is that his themes are so universal.
Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.
I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
I'll never forget watching my dad perform in a Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Richard III' in New York.
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.
My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
We hope the Bell Shakespeare Company will become an indigenous part of the Globe Shakespeare Centre in Australia.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.
While Shakespeare wasn't the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he's one of the loudest voices.
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.