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I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

— Edward Hall

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

— Richard McCabe

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

— Dyan Cannon

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

— Mandy Patinkin

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

— Daniel Hannan

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

— Howard Nemerov

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

— Daniel Craig

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

— Oscar Isaac