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We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'

You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.