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

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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

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