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

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

Exercise

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

Bible

"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."

Computer

"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation."

Opportunity

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

Ideas

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

People

"Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth."

History

"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."

People

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

Experience

"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."

Education