Love Quote by Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris is sneaking a mission statement into a casual brag: don’t file him under “natural talent,” file him under “systems.” By calling himself a “games and theory kind of guy,” he frames acting less as mystical self-expression and more as strategic play. It’s a useful bit of self-mythology for a performer who’s built a career on precision - comedy timing, musical phrasing, magic, hosting. He’s telling you his craft runs on mechanisms.

The Shakespeare line does two things at once. First, it defangs the intimidation factor. Shakespeare is often sold as cultural spinach: good for you, hard to chew. Harris reframes it as a puzzle box, something you crack for pleasure. That move is savvy because it converts prestige into play; it also flatters the audience by inviting them to imagine that the Bard is solvable with the right mindset.

The subtext is about legitimacy and range. An actor associated with broad comedy and pop-facing roles signals: I’m not just performing lines, I’m reverse-engineering language. “Dissecting” is the tell - a clinical verb that suggests control, not reverence. He’s positioning Shakespeare’s prose as engineered text, full of gears (meter, rhetoric, breath, intention) that reward analysis the way a well-designed trick rewards the magician who knows where the misdirection lives.

Contextually, it’s also a modern celebrity’s answer to the old suspicion that actors are merely charismatic. Harris argues for actor-as-analyst: someone who earns their lightness through disciplined decoding.