#shakespeare

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#emotions #extraordinary #history #intensification #look

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#famous #get #hogwash #i #interest

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#got #i #i can #myself #need

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#come #cows #discovery #home #i

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#depends #important #life #name #only

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#dickens #friends #greatest #many #mark

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#i #mark #mark twain #reading #shakespeare

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#around #ask #did #dinner #hair

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

— Michelle Dockery

#good #good song #like #lines #main

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bach #beethoven #i #jane #jane austen