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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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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."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
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"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."
"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."
"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."
"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."
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