47 Quotes by Sam Wanamaker

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

The physical nature of the Globe is going to break down a lot of barriers.

In my teens, I saw a terrible production of 'Die Walkuere.' To a person of 15, it was just awful, and it put me off for many years. Eventually I became an opera-goer, if not an opera buff.

Now I do perhaps three films or 17 TV movies a year.

Two planeloads of California actors and directors flew to Washington in support of the Hollywood Ten, and some of us, like John Garfield, came down from New York. There's a very famous Life magazine cover with Bogart and Bacall sitting in the hearing room. I was in between them.

What would the world say if the Globe, now that it has at last been found, is not excavated?

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.

I am kind of a curiosity in England.

I admit we don't know for sure the exact spot where the original Globe stood. But the Greenmore Wharf site is as nearly right as we can figure.