Recital Quotes

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. The sad thing is that when you`re really ready to play these roles - when you really know how to play them - nobody`s going to cast you.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

In all the years you have known him, he never appeared the way he appeared at that recital to you?