Phoebe Robinson Quotes

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

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.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

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

If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.

I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

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

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?

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

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

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 is like mother's milk to me.

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.

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

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.