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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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"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
"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."
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
"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."
"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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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."
"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."
"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."
"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."
"Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then."
"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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