Shakespeare Quotes

“Shakespeare is a writer of opposites. He will always give you a contrary.”

“There's always a secret in a Shakespeare play.”

“You can’t do Shakespeare unless you love the verse. It’s the music of the play.”

“Rhythm is not a metronome. It's the heartbeat of the character.”

“Shakespeare is the best writer, a great storyteller.”

“Shakespeare is the Canon. He sets the standard and the limits of literature.”

“When in doubt, speak the verse as if it’s prose and the prose as if it’s verse.”

“I always thought that as a Scottish actor, I'd have to do some Shakespeare.”

“It’s very easy to put Shakespeare on a pedestal... But in fact he was a jobbing playwright who had to get bums on seats. We’re in the same business.”

“All the world's a stage, and the stage is a world of pasteboard.”

“The thing about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent... He speaks the unspoken.”

“Shakespeare is the best. It's the best language, the best stories.”

“Shakespeare is the cornerstone of our language, and it's also our greatest export.”

“Francis Bacon, of St. Albans, was the greatest and most highly accomplished man who ever lived.”

“The best of Shakespeare's plays are the most inclusive.”

“Shakespeare is my first love. That's where my heart is.”

“In the whole history of art, there is no second example of a genius so universal as that of Shakespeare.”

“If you speak verse, you have to find the human truth in it, and the human truth is not always pretty.”

“Shakespeare’s work is a machine for generating stories.”

“The great thing about Shakespeare is that he keeps us honest.”