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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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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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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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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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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
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"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."
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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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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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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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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
Order

"Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians."
Talent

"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."
Trying

"I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go."
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"People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience."
People

"It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful."
Daughter

"Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time."
Time

"I'd love to do some new plays."
Love

"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."
Energy

"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."
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