But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

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You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

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But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.

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It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

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It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

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And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

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And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

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