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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."

"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?"

"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."

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
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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."


"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."


"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."


"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."


"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."


"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."


"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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