Olivia d'Abo Quotes

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.

I would love to play Richard III.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

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 don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

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