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In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.

When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.

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If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

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More people saw me in one episode of 'Cheers' than would ever see me in a play.

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Television is an important part of how we communicate.

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The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

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All this thing that L.A. doesn't have any love for the theater isn't true.

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We did a black 'Julius Caesar' in which the predominant accent was Caribbean. This offends many people, you know. I also had a Chinese Marc Anthony. I also managed - this caused a great shock - I also got some white guys in it as well!

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I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.

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There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

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