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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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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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"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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"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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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 were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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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."
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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."
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"I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow."
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"They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range."
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"There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies."
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"All men are difficult."
Men
"Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground."
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"You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it."
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"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"
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"But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age."
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"The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males."
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