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Anthony Hopkins

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

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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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."

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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

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"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
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"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."
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"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."
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"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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