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

"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."

"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."

"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."

"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."

"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."

"I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters."

"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."

"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."

"Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky."

"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."

"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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