"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is……" — Montgomery Clift

"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."

Montgomery Clift

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