I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.
If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't.
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!
Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.
Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
