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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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"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
"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?"
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."
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