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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
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"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."
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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"I love being part of a company, and telling a story."
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"In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me."
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"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."
People
"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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"The theater is the thing I love doing most."
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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."
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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."
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"The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater."
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