Top 84 Quotes About Shakespearean: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Shakespearean

#1. The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

Arthur Smith

#2. My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

Armand Assante

#3. She was wearing a sleeveless top that held her breasts in the most marvelous way, the balance between what it revealed and what it left to the imagination as poetic as a Shakespearean sonnet.

E.E. Giorgi

#4. Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

Lorraine Toussaint

#5. It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

Timothy Dalton

#6. You're like great Shakespearean tragedy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

Leigh Newman

#8. Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

Renee O'Connor

#9. I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

Donald Wolfit

#10. Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean. I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia. I

Rachel Cohn

#11. No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Harold Bloom

#12. Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.

Amy Lowell

#13. Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

Harold Bloom

#14. Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

William Shakespeare

#15. Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.

Anna Akhmatova

#16. I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

Ian McLeod

#17. In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#18. 'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

Michelle Dockery

#19. Everyone has to die at some point, so the thought of passing on together while holding hands with my one true love has always sounded like an amazing fairy tale. It reminds me of the old Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, and of the powerful love they shared.

Shannon Duffy

#20. I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

Jack Prelutsky

#21. 'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.

Joel Edgerton

#22. I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.

Bob Dylan

#23. I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

Vinny Guadagnino

#24. These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check by a lively skepticism about everything ... It keeps you constantly alert to every possibility.

Robertson Davies

#25. If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.

Ridley Scott

#26. No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Harold Bloom

#27. a Shakespearean play with a hip-hop score

Jim Gaffigan

#28. I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

Nancy Grace

#29. The Shakespearean theatre was the product of the entrepreneurial maritime culture of the age,

Boris Johnson

#30. Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

Mark Rylance

#31. Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads ...

Joseph Epstein

#32. Application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.

James Lee Burke

#33. It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.

John Irving

#34. Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she creates an alley, a neighborhood, a history that is as rich and tragic as any Shakespearean tale.

Walter Mosley

#35. A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#36. See, that illustrates the whole problem," Dieter said. "The best Shakespearean actress in the whole territory, and her favourite line of text is from Star Trek.

Emily St. John Mandel

#37. Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.

Harvey Korman

#38. American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

George Mikes

#39. Dude. If that was a Shakespearean quote duel, he just kicked your ass.

Kevin Hearne

#40. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

Harry Connick Jr.

#41. He was standing on a ladder when he said it, which made it seem almost Shakespearean.

Rainbow Rowell

#42. Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.

Michael Ian Black

#43. Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand ...

William Butler Yeats

#44. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

Carla Gugino

#45. If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I'd choose to mimic the Macbeths - before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents into madness and death, that is.

Jillian Keenan

#46. You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

Ving Rhames

#47. In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#48. My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

Katy Mixon

#49. 'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

Francis Ford Coppola

#50. In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

Tom Morello

#51. I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

John Lithgow

#52. Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

Keith Devlin

#53. By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

C.P. Snow

#54. Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Richard Branson

#55. A third ... candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

Bill Bryson

#56. A political reading of Shakespeare is bound to be less interesting than a Shakespearean reading of politics[.]

Harold Bloom

#57. I think participating in GISHWHES is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

Misha Collins

#58. Shakespearean tragedy is neither ancient history nor fairy tale. Perhaps to express this is the most important thing. In which period does the action of the play take place? It is in that past which can become the future.

Grigori Kozintsev

#59. No," Bertie said, "something tragic. The most famous of all the Shakespearean tragedies-"
Mustardseed jumped up and down. "Your hair!"
"Shakespearean tragedy, Mustardseed.

Lisa Mantchev

#60. I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

Dennis Hopper

#61. If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Lucy Liu

#62. I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like a Shakespearean fool.

Riz Ahmed

#63. Mums answer is so unexpected and I am a litte stunned, actually. I wonder whether, had I known the reason for my name as a child, I would have tried to live up to it. Instead of being a failed Arabella, I might have become a Shakespearean plucky Beatrice.

Rosamund Lupton

#64. Our story was just like Romeo and Juliet. We were just two kids falling in love. But we didn't have that old Shakespearean insta-kind-of-love. Ours had a lot more to it.

Melissa M. Futrell

#65. Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

Glen Duncan

#66. But these people _announced_ their madness ... they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it.

Zadie Smith

#67. Timon: Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!

William Shakespeare

#68. For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins
Shall forth at vast of night that they may work
All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em.

William Shakespeare

#69. ...and then she smacketh me across mine visage.

Zechariah Barrett

#70. Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn!

William Shakespeare

#71. And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

Mervyn Peake

#72. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed
With raven's feather from unwholesom fen
Drop on you both! A southwest blow on ye
And blister you all o'er!

William Shakespeare

#73. Death is not the only possible outcome.

Amy Hennig

#74. An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.

Amy Hennig