I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while,… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Watching Hamlet embarrassing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by showing them he knows they’re liars and spies, Max was thinking, “Hamlet cares only about… — Lucy Beckett Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In the gravedigger scene in act V, Hamlet looks upon an anonymous skull and jokes that even Alexander the Great decomposed into… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if… — Shakespeare, William Copy Share Image
“Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jer, vidite, u teatru gledaoca osvaja magija igre, magična moć takozvane umjetnosti. On hoće da bude žalostan, da plače, da pati, a… — Ranko Marinković Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the main thing I did in my life from the age of 16 when I first played 'Hamlet' at school.… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I could make thousands of dollars in Broadway musicals, but among the best experiences I had was doing 'Hamlet' in Milwaukee and… — John Cullum Copy Share Image
Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between… — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That… — John Logan Copy Share Image
It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I saw Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet at the Old Vic and straight away had a very strong sense that he might be… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
“I am by turns a petulant adolescent and a mature man, a melancholy loner and a wit telling actors their trade. I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
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