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You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

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

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.