Quotes on Shakespeare

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

Author: Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author: Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Author: Harold Bloom

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Author: Andrew Bradley

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

Author: Andrew Bradley

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Author: Joyce Brothers

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

Author: H. Bunner

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

Author: Charles Darwin

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Author: Judi Dench

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Author: Dan Devine

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.

Author: Samuel Engel

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Author: Brendan Fraser

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

Author: George George III

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

Author: Sharon Gless

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

Author: Uta Hagen

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Author: Edward Hall

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

Author: Anthony Hopkins

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

Author: Lawrence Kasdan

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

Author: Jessica Lange

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

Author: Ted Lange

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Author: Alanis Morissette

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

Author: Leslie Nielsen

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

Author: Mandy Patinkin

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Author: Mandy Patinkin

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Author: Ted Rall

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

Author: Dick Schaap

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Author: Maximilian Schell

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Author: George Shaw

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Author: Michael Tippett

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

Author: Sam Waterston