Hamlet Quotes · Page 3

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

— Kenneth Branagh

“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?”

— Alan Bradley

“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.”

— William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African…

— Henning Mankell

It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least…

— Ted Cassidy

“Is this a prologue or a posy of a ring? Ophelia: Tis brief, my lord Hamlet: As woman's love.”

— William Shakespeare

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

— Hari Kunzru

“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4…

— Hilary Mantel

“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!" — Hamlet, Act I,…

— Hamlet Act I Scene V William Shakespeare

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

— Arthur Miller

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

— Jones Very

As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this…

— Winston Duke

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the most beautiful things about Shakespeare's Hamlet is when he stops in the middle of the play to ask, 'To…

— David Harbour

The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in…

— Ryan North

“It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the…

— David Foster Wallace

“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of…

— Stephen King

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to…

— Seth Lloyd

The next time someone tells you that Shakespeare is irrelevant, tell him that the Bard wrote his greatest play about George W.…

— Norah Vincent

“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in…

— Ronald Carter

“God is not an actor within the larger scheme of things. He is not a muscle-bound Jupiter, bullying the littler ones. He…

— Douglas Wilson

“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be…

— Virginia Woolf

“Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's…

— Quindon Tarver

“No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a…

— T. S. Eliot

I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of…

— Wendy Wasserstein

“Spoilers follow I started reading the third act of Hamlet, and I got about two pages in when I realized there's no…

— Megan Crewe

'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.

— David Farr

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

— William Shakespeare

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the…

— Eric McCormack

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

— Jason Gann

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

— Aaron Yoo

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

— Shari Sebbens

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I…

— Erin Morgenstern

Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

— David Carradine

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

— Robert Morse

“They waited, none of them entirely convinced that the old man wouldn't appear before them again like the ghost of Hamlet's father…

— Stephen King

“Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— Ken Robinson