Bard of Avon Quotes

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.

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

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 the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

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

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

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.

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

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

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.

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

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.

The magic word 'Shakespeare' always freezes you in your chair.

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

I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

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

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

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

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.