There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins, and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness.

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

I have seen her [Hillary Clinton] in several other situations where she didn't look healthy.