"This isn't Hamlet, you know. It's not meant to go into the bloody ear."
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January 1, 1970

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Who: Laurence Olivier — Note: Supposedly said this when a nurse, attempting to moisten his lips, mis-aimed. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the title character's father is killed when poison is dripped into his ear while asleep.