Modern Shakespeare Quotes

#1. I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

Zach Braff

#2. They'd performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatrical offerings.

Emily St. John Mandel

#3. The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

Chris Cornell

#4. To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

M. Russell Ballard

#5. Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.

Mark Ruffalo

#6. But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Julie Taymor

#7. It delighted him that he could find no use of the word modern in Shakespeare that did not carry its load of contempt.

Jocelyn Gibb

#8. A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok

#9. Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

Arthur Smith

#10. And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

Aldous Huxley

#11. We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

Max Levchin

#12. It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Jessica Lange

#13. Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.

Michael Montoure

#14. Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the very one we hold ourselves up to.

Jess Winfield

#15. It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Full of wise saws and modern instances.

William Shakespeare

#17. quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#18. Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

Alex Kingston

#20. The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Christina Baldwin

#21. I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare, you're trying to act with a fairly archaic language, although in certain aspects, it's deeply modern.

Joseph Fiennes

#22. O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

William Shakespeare

#23. In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

Carla Hall

#24. See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare

Eminem

#25. I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

Jenny Slate

#26. every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.

Theodore Dalrymple

#27. Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

Mal Peet

#28. There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

Joss Whedon

#29. To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

#30. If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

Mark Helprin

#31. I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

Julia Stiles