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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
"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?"
"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
"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."
"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."
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that."
"I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right."
"I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again."
"And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most."
"Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own."
"It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed."
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