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I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

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.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.