Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations. — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“But what was he to do? Stay where he was or move on? This Oblomovian question was for him of even deeper… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to… — William T. Wiley Copy Share Image
You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it. — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
I grew up doing regional Shakespeare, and when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, there's something about that that you don't… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles,… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance?… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them.… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea in… — Sophocles Carson Anne Copy Share Image
“In view of this, it may seem remarkable that anything as complex as a text of Hamlet exists. The observation that Hamlet… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“When we see plays performed on the stage, we work with a different set of standards. Hamlet is ours to picture as… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“What are you reading?" Polonius asked. "Words, words, words," said Hamlet. "And what's the subject?" "Lesser than the king, but still not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Hamlet’s soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare. Ah, it’s sublime, sublime! Always fetches the house. I haven’t got it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death--and he drove… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet. — Danny Kaye Copy Share Image
![“But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ead/kurt-vonnegut-41_bad-news_but-there-s-a-reason-we-recognize-hamlet_1956903.jpg)
![“HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that…” quote by William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/28d/william-shakespeare-4_beggar_hamlet-we-fat-all-creatures-else-to-fat_188869.jpg)
