Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

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

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

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

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.

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.