Sam Wanamaker Quotes

Sam Wanamaker

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 14, 1919

Since the theater is going to be reconstructed in the techniques of joinery craftsmanship as it was before, it will take longer to make. It will be a complex of buildings, not just the Globe, with a major permanent exhibition of the Elizabethan theater.

Sam Wanamaker

Most Britons, and most Americans as well, either thought the Globe was in Stratford-Upon-Avon or didn't know where it was at all.

Sam Wanamaker

I've always been in institutional theater.

Sam Wanamaker

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

The physical nature of the Globe is going to break down a lot of barriers.

Sam Wanamaker

We hope the Bell Shakespeare Company will become an indigenous part of the Globe Shakespeare Centre in Australia.

Sam Wanamaker

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

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

Sam Wanamaker

The Globe will become an automatic sight like the Tower of London and St. Paul's.

Sam Wanamaker

I foresee the Globe attracting scholars from all over the world.

Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

Sam Wanamaker

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

I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.

Sam Wanamaker

When I first went to London to do a film in 1949, I naturally went to visit the site of the Globe. There was this small plaque on the side of a grimy brewery wall in a derelict alley near the riverfront. I was shocked.

Sam Wanamaker

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.

Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare belongs to the whole of mankind, not just one country.

Sam Wanamaker

Unlike young actors, I don't feel unfulfilled. I've had my successes. I don't have to worry that I won't have time for other things.

Sam Wanamaker

I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.

Sam Wanamaker

My middle daughter is with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was on Broadway several years ago.

Sam Wanamaker