You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

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

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.