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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
"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."
"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."
"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."
"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."
"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."
"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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