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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."

"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."

"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."

"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."

"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."

"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."

"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."

"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."

"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
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