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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.

Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.