Michelle Gomez Quotes

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.

A lot of us go back into theater because you learn so much on the journey.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

The stage was our school, our home, our life.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.