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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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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."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
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"Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s."
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