#shakes

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is. ↗

— Judy Davis

#acting #down #first #great #how

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. ↗

— Anna Torv

#big #like #love #most #most amazing

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. ↗

— William John Wills

#been #camels #disappointed #even #fact

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. ↗

— Terri Windling

#adage #before #done #how #old

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#anything #knows #legend #nobody #person

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#force #genius #his #human #insignificance

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

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#just #like #place #sea #shakespeare