Quotes tagged ‘shakespeare’

(70 total)

“Oh, to be so horny, but so unlovable. It's truly Shakespearean, darling.”

— Mark Levin, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Nick Kroll, Kelly Galuska, Mona, Thandiwe Newton, imdb.com

“If William Shakespeare was alive today, he would be on Instagram”

“Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.”

— Matt Haig, amazon.com

“Alex: You brought the party to me. That is so romantic. Cooler: At last, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. That Guy from Season One: That's Hamlet. Cooler: No, man...Shakespeare.”

— James Vallely, Cooler, George Basil, imdb.com

“Tim: I'm quite good with angst and tragedy. Lee: You grew up in a cul-de-sac in Henley, what do you know about tragedy? Tim: The Greeks invented it, Shakespeare wrote about it, the Bee-Gees sang it and Steps covered it.”

— Lee Mack, Andrew Collins, Tim Adams, Tim Vine, imdb.com

“If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn’t be as worthwhile an art form as anything on Earth?”

— Stan Lee, upress.state.ms.us

““I bite my thumb at you!””

— Ian Lecklitner, melmagazine.com

“I appealed to their sense of teamwork and camaraderie with a rousing speech that would put Shakespeare to shame.”

— Lesley Arfin, Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg, imdb.com

“Now, remember son: stay in school, eat your veggies, burn everything but Shakespeare.”

— John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit, Rango (voice), Johnny Depp, imdb.com

“I'm a master of fright, / and a deeeemon of light, / and I'll scare you right out of your pants. / To a guy in Kentucky / I'm Mister Unlucky / And I'm know thoughout England and France, / And since I am dead, / I can take off my head / [does it] to recite Shakespearean quotations. / No animal or man…”

— Caroline Thompson, Tim Burton, Jack Skellington (singing) / Barrel / Clown with the Tear away Face (voice), Danny Elfman, imdb.com

“Ricky Ricardo: Excuse me, Mrs. Shakespeare, but would you mind telling me what this is all about? Lucy Ricardo: Well, you see, all the women's clubs in town are having a big play-writing contest. Ricky Ricardo: I knew it, I knew it. This had to do with the Wednesday Afternoon Fang and Claw Society.…”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

“I've always liked the notion of meeting the great figures of history. But then I think: what if it's like high school and all the really cool dead people don't want to hang out with me? Mozart'll tell me he's busy but then later I'll see him out with Shakespeare and Lincoln!”

— Suzanne Martin, Niles Crane, David Hyde Pierce, imdb.com

“My mother taught me many things. Among the most useful is that one must always have Shakespeare at hand.”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

“In the words of the immortal bard, Shakespeare, 'There are three times in a man's life when he wants to be alone: one, when he's communing with his thoughts; two, when he's being tender with his wife; and three, when he's in the isolation booth on 'The $64,000 Question'.'”

— A.J. Russell, Herbert Finn, Ed Norton, Art Carney, imdb.com

“That is the precise line the Shakespearean evildoer could not cross. But the evildoer with ideology does cross it, and his eyes remain dry and clear.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org

“As Shakespeare once said, 'I'm stuck on this play. Let's have a beer or something?'”

— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe into Hey, nonny nonny.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“If music be the food of love play on.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com