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"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."
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians."
"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."
"Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other."
"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."
"It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful."
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