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"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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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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"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."
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"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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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
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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."
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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in."
Father
"I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!"
Family
"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal."
Work
"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent."
Leadership
"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
Comedy
"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking."
God
"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."
Life
"I've finally found my home - as Lt. Frank Drebin."
Home
"It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!"
Time
"It was a boy's name first."
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