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

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

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

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

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

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

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

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.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

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

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.

I'd love Shakey Bill to tell me a story - I mean, William Shakespeare, he could squeak a nib couldn't he?

I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.

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

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

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

I feel like Shakespeare is so epic, in a way that sci-fi genre stuff is epic, it transcends the mundane, and it takes you to this place of real passion and real beauty.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

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

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