Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

I'd had no eye on the theater at all [as a profession] until that moment, even though I'd been going to the theater since early childhood. But it was that magical production that made me decide to become an actor. I saw it 17 times.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.