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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
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"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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