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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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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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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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"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
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"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."
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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."
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"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!"
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"It was a boy's name first."
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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
"The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh."
Comedy
"I've finally found my home - as Lt. Frank Drebin."
Home
"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
Comedy
"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."
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"I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it."
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"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent."
Leadership
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