Sophie Okonedo Quotes

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

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

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?

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

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

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it's all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.