I became a producer because of projects I wanted to pursue and develop as a director or actor. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of his greatest works. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
We hope the Bell Shakespeare Company will become an indigenous part of the Globe Shakespeare Centre in Australia. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
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. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
The Globe will become an automatic sight like the Tower of London and St. Paul’s. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century of Progress World’s Fair in Chicago. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
That first replica of the Globe that I saw at the Chicago World’s Fair was a suspect thing, made of plywood and papier-mache. But I kept seeing other replicas at other fairs in the ’30s, so I developed a longing to see London. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
