The Globe Theatre Quotes

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

Shakespeare, I come!

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.