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

"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?"

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."

"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."
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"I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it."

"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."

"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."

"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."

"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."

"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."
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