# Shakespeare played by... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097 "2008-06-24T18:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/21 "2008-06-25T01:01:57Z")
_“You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely”._ Silda Spitzer ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/22 "2008-06-25T01:27:44Z")
_“When shall we three meet again…in thunder, lightning, or in rain?”_ Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Ewles (“Twister”) I know, it’s obvious. Love, Phil ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/23 "2008-06-25T02:21:47Z")
_“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”_ Schrödinger’s cat ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/24 "2008-06-25T02:29:34Z")
_The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose._ (regarding) Fred Phelps ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/25 "2008-06-25T02:36:39Z")
_…I re-tell thee again and again, I hate the Moor._ Bill Clinton (in South Carolina, IIRC) _Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven._ Kevin James (though he falsely attributed it to Neville Chamberlain) _As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods_. Michael Jackson _What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet._ Jason Lee (upon the birth of his son Pilot Inspektor) \*If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. \* Norman Borlaug _Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes._ Michelle Obama _Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself._ Bush Defense Department logo \*Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him. \* Mary Surratt \*Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. \* Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie (a note to fellow hotel guests) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/26 "2008-06-25T12:50:13Z")
Here’s one suitable for a fictional character: _Let slip the dogs of war._ – Montgomery Burns (“Smithers, release the hounds.”) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/27 "2008-06-25T12:57:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] _What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet._ Jason Lee (upon the birth of his son Pilot Inspektor) [/quote] Also works for Don Imus. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/28 "2008-06-25T13:36:30Z")
_What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again_ Annie Sprinkle ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/29 "2008-06-25T13:41:46Z")
_We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!_ The Village People ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/30 "2008-06-25T14:02:31Z")
\*But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. \* George W Bush. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/31 "2008-06-25T14:07:27Z")
_But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love’s majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them - Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid . . ._ Karl Rove ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/32 "2008-06-25T14:09:52Z")
_. . . Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come._ Mary Kay ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/33 "2008-06-25T14:23:46Z")
_"Eye of newt, toe of frog_." and “_A dish fit for the gods_.” Anthony Bourdain (Food Network Host) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/34 "2008-06-25T15:13:06Z")
_“Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.”_ [Stella Liebeck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_coffee_case) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/35 "2008-06-25T15:32:04Z")
_I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing._ O.J. Simpson ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/36 "2008-06-25T15:39:20Z")
“Oh, for fuck’s sake!” Gordon Ramsay ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/37 "2008-06-25T15:47:38Z")
_Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments_ California Supreme Court (okay, it’s a sonnet, but still…) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/38 "2008-06-25T15:48:55Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] “Oh, for fuck’s sake!” Gordon Ramsay [/QUOTE] What, who? 😕 [QUOTE=jali] _"Eye of newt, toe of frog_." and “_A dish fit for the gods_.” Anthony Bourdain (Food Network Host) [/QUOTE] See post #1😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/39 "2008-06-25T15:53:21Z")
“I am as constant as the Northern Star.” _Stephen Hawking_ “The fault … is not in our stars but in ourselves.” _Albert Einstein_ ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097/40 "2008-06-25T15:57:53Z")
_That struts and frets his hour upon the stage_ - Al Pacino \*It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. \* - Joel Silver about Michael Bay [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-played-by/454097.md?page=3)