On his most memorable money mistake: "When I was a young actor at Canada`s Stratford Festival, one of the older actors told me that Canadian uranium is the future and you must buy into it. So I bought it on Thursday with the entire $500 I had saved. The f...
William Shatner
I`m going to Stratford next year [2009] to play Claudius in `Hamlet,` knowing that I shall never be asked to give my Hamlet. I`ve done bits of it in recital, but I never played Hamlet, I never played Romeo, I never played Orlando, I never played Benedick....
Patrick Stewart
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.
Trevor Nunn
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Trevor Nunn
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.
Mark Rylance
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.
Mark Rylance