Tag Archives: Jonathan Pryce

It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted – I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But […]

I try to see some good in everyone. Jonathan Pryce

People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, 'Well, they asked me.' Jonathan Pryce

When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy. Jonathan Pryce

'Macbeth' sags in act four – the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the play is so long, Shakespeare manages to sustain the arc. Jonathan Pryce

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school – you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts. Jonathan Pryce

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy. Jonathan Pryce

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater. Jonathan Pryce

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go. Jonathan Pryce

Sometimes I just want to laugh. Jonathan Pryce