Shakespeare Quotes – City of Quotes

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you’ve got it right.

Tom Sturridge

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you’ve got it right.

Tom Sturridge

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I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

Kelly Asbury

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

Kelly Asbury

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The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don’t want to get old. And you can see – read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They’re all about aging.

Cynthia Kenyon

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don’t want to get old. And you can see – read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They’re all about aging.

Cynthia Kenyon

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I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Elizabeth Banks

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Elizabeth Banks

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Shakespeare’s work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Michelle Dockery

Shakespeare’s work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Michelle Dockery

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Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

George Edward Woodberry

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

George Edward Woodberry

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When I started in the theater, I’d do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women’s roles.

Annette Bening

When I started in the theater, I’d do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women’s roles.

Annette Bening

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The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ the speeches are so big and muscular and rich – exhausting to speak, actually.

Harriet Walter

The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ the speeches are so big and muscular and rich – exhausting to speak, actually.

Harriet Walter

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

Roger Rees

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

Roger Rees

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

Marshall McLuhan

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

Marshall McLuhan

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I wasn’t a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that’s still going, and I haven’t given up on it.

Alice Ripley

I wasn’t a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that’s still going, and I haven’t given up on it.

Alice Ripley

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Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Kate O'Mara

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

Neil Patrick Harris

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

Neil Patrick Harris

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The magic word ‘Shakespeare’ always freezes you in your chair.

Howard Jacobson

The magic word ‘Shakespeare’ always freezes you in your chair.

Howard Jacobson

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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Anthony Hopkins

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Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

Eric Bischoff

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

Eric Bischoff

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Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can’t understand many things unless you know something about astrology – the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

Steven Pinker

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can’t understand many things unless you know something about astrology – the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

Steven Pinker

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Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I didn’t come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

David Boreanaz

I didn’t come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

David Boreanaz

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I found that the more I’d done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it’s meant to be acted.

Tom Sturridge

I found that the more I’d done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it’s meant to be acted.

Tom Sturridge

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As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you’ve got it right.

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don’t want to get old. And you can see – read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They’re all about aging.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Shakespeare’s work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

When I started in the theater, I’d do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women’s roles.

The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ the speeches are so big and muscular and rich – exhausting to speak, actually.

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

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

I wasn’t a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that’s still going, and I haven’t given up on it.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

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

The magic word ‘Shakespeare’ always freezes you in your chair.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can’t understand many things unless you know something about astrology – the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

I didn’t come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

I found that the more I’d done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it’s meant to be acted.