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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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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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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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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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"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like."
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"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."
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"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."
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"I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent."
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"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."
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"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."
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"As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one."
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"Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too."
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"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."
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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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