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

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.

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

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.

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

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

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