In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

I’m not a playwright.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I bear a charmed life.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

I can’t act!

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

I call architecture frozen music.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I played Othello, but I didn’t sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn’t do me any good.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!