Joss Whedon Quotes

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

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

I don't really consider myself a writer.

I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?

I can only repeat, I would never compare myself to Gerd Muller.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

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

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

I don’t even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that’s really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander.

I've never felt invincible. I've never used that word to describe me ever.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.