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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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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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"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
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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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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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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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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."
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"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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"Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump."
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"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."
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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed."
Time
"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."
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"Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was."
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"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."
People
"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."
People
"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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"I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do."
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