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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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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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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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"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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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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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."
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"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."
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"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
Shakespeare
"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."
Lie
"I never make conscious decisions."
Decisions
"I'm the slowest driver in the world."
World
"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
Father
"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."
Thought
"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
Love
"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."
Life
"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."
Act
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