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...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.
- Elise Broach

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

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.
- Nina Lacour

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
- A A Milne

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
- Trevor Nunn

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

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io.
Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.
Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.
- Dan Simmons

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.
- Mark Strong

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