"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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"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

"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent."

Leadership

"It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."

Past

"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 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 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."

Science

"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."

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

"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."

"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."

"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."

"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."

"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."

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

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

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

"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."

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"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!"

"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent."

"It was a boy's name first."

"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."

"I've finally found my home - as Lt. Frank Drebin."

"It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."

"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."

"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."