I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.
Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.