J C Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that's what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That's where you are. You've got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet. — Joseph Campbell

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream — William Shakespeare

If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake," he said. "Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister." Freedom was a foundation for creativity. — Walter Isaacson

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. — Daniel Craig

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition. — Aya Cash

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really. — Janet Suzman

[I] must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words. — William Shakespeare

Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? — William Shakespeare

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip! — William Shakespeare

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated — William Shakespeare

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. — William Shakespeare

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on. — William Shakespeare

One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays. — John Lithgow

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot. — Arthur Phillips

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. — William Shakespeare

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. — Ken Kesey

CARDINAL PANDULPH You hold too heinous a respect of grief. CONSTANCE He talks to me that never had a son. — William Shakespeare

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. — William Shakespeare

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare. — Stephanie Beatriz

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. — Oscar Wilde

Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. — William Shakespeare

The will of man is by his reason sway'd; — William Shakespeare

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. — William Shakespeare

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. — Anna Torv

In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on. — Mandy Patinkin

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material. — Renee O'Connor

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil. — Roger Rosenblatt

As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure--and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him. — Soren Kierkegaard

As Shakespeare said, there's nothin' cooler than droppin' the 'g's off of gerunds! — Stephen Colbert