The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
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.
Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
Shakespeare is universal.
Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.