And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.