55 Quotes by Steven Berkoff

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare’s origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare’s text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.

When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.

I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of fiction.

Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.