#shakespeare

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ↗

— Robert Graves

#good #people #really #remarkable #say

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#fun #games #guy #i #i love

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#characters #chinese #could #did #get

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#i #mark #mark twain #reading #shakespeare

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#had #hamlet #juliet #romeo #romeo and juliet

Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#seven #seventeen #seventy #shakespeare #beauty

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#any #example #for example #i #i think

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#book #books #dying #give #just

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#feels #figure #get #grew #home

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#charlie #charlie chaplin #comedies #ever #funny