Michelle Dockery Quotes

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

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

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

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

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

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

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

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.