“A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.” — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“I had no one, but Hamlet. Who hated me with the fire of a thousand suns.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be… — maryrose wood Copy Share Image
“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“My lord, I will take my leave of you. Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Slipping in blood, by his own hand, through pride, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall. Upon his bed, however, Shakespeare die, Having endured them… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“I met Hamlet at a number 48B bus stop,” said Mr. Gedeon. “He’d been there for some time, poor chap. At least… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part'… — Joel Edgerton 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
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
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
“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
“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
“My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle between these two halves… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Hamlet: … for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so…” — Hamlet Act 2 scene 2 Copy Share Image
“Just before we have sex, the question often is: To pee, or not to pee?” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare, Hamlet — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
“My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image