Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film.
If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.
I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.
I've been with Shakespeare all my life.
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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