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

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

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

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.

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.

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.