Xavier Samuel Quotes

My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

I'd love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.

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

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

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

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

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

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

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

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

I love English and literature.

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.