Mr. T Quotes

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

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

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

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

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

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

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

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

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.

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.

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

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

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