Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.