Tim Crouch Quotes

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare over the years. You start to realise how the plays fit together; he's always using pieces from one and slotting them into others.

I studied religions and all kinds of other things in college. I took a Shakespearean villain course for English literature. It was really intense. I think that sort of rounds a person. In this business, it's really important for us to be interesting... and have interests.

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.