“There's a danger in being too reverent. Shakespeare was a populist; he wanted to entertain.”— Terry Hands
“You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.”— Nicholas Meyer
“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise!”— Ben Jonson
“The whole history of modern poetry is a running commentary on the following brief text of Shakespeare: 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact'.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“I think Shakespeare is everybody's birthright. He is, just like the blues, just like jazz, an American tradition.”— Liev Schreiber