Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Michael Tippett

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.
Edward Bond

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.
Anita Diament

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
John Lithgow

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Charles Lamb

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
Sam Waterston

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
Charlton Heston

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.
Harold Bloom

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
Edward Hall

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
Dyan Cannon

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
Howard Nemerov

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
H. C. Bunner

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.
Samuel G. Engel

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Eugene Ionesco

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
Harold Bloom