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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

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 think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

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.

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.