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1 " Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. "
― John Gielgud
2 " N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson, "
― John Gielgud , Acting Shakespeare
3 " Shakespeare's intention: he so carefully devised the balcony scene as prelude, and the farewell scene as post-consummation, in order to avoid embarrassing both the boy actor who created his Juliet and the audience. "
4 " I once tried to approach Akiro Kurosawa, but he never answered. "
5 " Richard II is something of a plaster saint and knows it only too well. But it is a rewarding part, with lovely things to say, and I thought it suited my personality. "
6 " Twice today I've got to play Hamlet, this great part that I shall never play again. And I can't do it today. I could do it tomorrow, or next week, but I can't do it now. "
7 " Caesar is not really very interesting: Cassius is the part. I "
8 " lago to amuse the audience, especially since Othello (like Macbeth) has no sense of humour. "
9 " I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script. "
10 " as therewere no kind of sanitary facilities on the premises, the results were apt to be unsightly and demoralising, to say the least. "
11 " how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage, "
12 " I never saw a production at Stratford Ontario, Guthrie's own theatre, which he designed and developed from a tent and which was said to work wonderfully. "
