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.

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

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

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.

I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.