Zoe Wanamaker Quotes

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

I would love to play Richard III.

I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

One of my favourite pieces is 'Antony and Cleopatra' - I'd love to be in that. Or an alternative version of 'Romeo & Juliet' where I get to play Mercutio, something like that.

I love live theatre, it's always thrilling and exciting.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

I got into theater at an early age.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

Acting was my first love.