Andre Holland Quotes

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

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

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

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

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, I come!

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

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

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.

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

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.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

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

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.