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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"

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

"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."

"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."

"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."

"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?"

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."

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"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"

"I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it."

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"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
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