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"You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor."
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"Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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