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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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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"

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

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

"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 is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."

"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."


"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."


"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."


"We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary."


"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."
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