Quotes

I was attracted to Shakespeare before the drama teachers got to me. I was still a youngster when I saw A Midsummer Night's Dream, but I realized that magical world of language and idea was for me.

[Shakespeare] didn't write to provide grist for scholarly mills. He wrote scripts! For actors! All the information we need is in the play. In the story. That should be the emphasis of the production. The words give us the characters, their relationships and emotions, the sense of time and place."

Once you've been bitten by the Shakespeare bug, it's a lifetime commitment.

[on getting cast on 'The Nanny'] I remember I had gone into the network for approval and I was there up against a famous actor called Roddy McDowall and I thought, 'Oh, why am I here? I don't have a prayer.'' And about three hours later, I got the call that I had the job.