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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?"

"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."

"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."

"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."

"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."

"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?"

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

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
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"Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes."

"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."

"The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great."

"To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible."

"I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character."
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