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"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."

"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"

"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?"

"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."

"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."

"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."

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

"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
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"When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work."

"I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue."

"I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them."

"I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always."

"Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all."

"But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile."
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