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.

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.

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.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

I love you. Forever, and a day.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

For some moments in life there are no words.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.