Orson Welles Quotes

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

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

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.

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

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

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 always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

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 is a permanent presence in the English letters.

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

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.

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.

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

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

The classics should be set in students’ minds so that they become the genes of Chinese national culture.

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

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.