Top 1200 Reading Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

While Shakespeare wasn't the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he's one of the loudest voices.

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

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

I had such a broad array of classes, in improvising, in clowning, in Shakespeare. It was so great to just be inundated with all that.

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

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

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

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

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

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

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

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.

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

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

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

Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.

Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

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

Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you — what — was there not sad stuff?

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

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

But I'm getting to a point where I'm trying to stop reading reviews about myself, only because it's a no-win situation. If they say something nice, you get a little ego pump. But people on the Internet are straight-up cruel, and I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable reading the ridiculous cruelties that people spit out on the Internet.

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

I did lots of Shakespeare and classics, and I just kind of became that person. I was a bit of a snob.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

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

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

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

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm reading someone else's story, and I feel like I've lost something, too, in the writing of self, as if I'm standing and reading myself, as a stranger, to other strangers.

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.

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

For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii." That is what happens.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

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