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I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

Shakespeare is universal.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.