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"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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"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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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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"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
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"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."
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"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."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand."
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"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
Animation
"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
Experience
"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
Shakespeare
"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
Career
"Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty."
People
"I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar."
Actor
"It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to."
Love
"My definition of success is control."
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"I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet."
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