Sam Wanamaker Quotes

I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago.

Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. He puts in certain middle-range characters. And when you go to the Globe, you realize how that all works. The people who paid more sat in seats around the edge. Everybody else paid a penny. They put it into a tin box - that's why we call it the "box office." They stood in the pit, but they were very close, so when Hamlet was doing his soliloquy, it was addressed to you, the audience - right there.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

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

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.