Michelle Dockery Quotes

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

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

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.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

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.

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

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

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

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

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

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

We promise you a hundred Shakespeares.

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

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

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