Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
It’s very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. ‘We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it’s very hard to say what formula works. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
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. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
I think the Schwontkowski banner will help publicize the construction of the new Globe and probably will also help fundraising. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have a real hunger for what they see as their history, their culture and their Shakespeare. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
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. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
What could be more fitting – or more exciting – than to restage Shakespeare’s plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written? Sam Wanamaker Read Quote
This is more than just the rebuilding of the Globe, creating some kind of monument to Shakespeare which he doesn’t need. His books are his monuments. But this will be a major center for the study of Shakespeare in performance. We are making the only faithful effort to restore the theater in every respect as close to the original as possible. Sam Wanamaker Read Quote