If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.