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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
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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."
"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."
"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
"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?"
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
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"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
"I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being."
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