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
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. — Thomas Gray 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
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do… — Orson Welles 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
“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“Clearly Hamlet wasn’t just a fictional Prince of Denmark but also something of an alpha dodo.” — Anonymous 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
Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story. — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
“There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is a universal story that concerns us all. These issues do not concern only Muslims, but all people equally, showing that… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
The next time someone tells you that Shakespeare is irrelevant, tell him that the Bard wrote his greatest play about George W.… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're… — Ian Mckellen 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
“shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescence she loses herself.… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“When Rosencrantz asks Hamlet, "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Were you ever in Elsinore, Mr Jagiello?’ asked Jack. Oh, many a time, sir,’ said Jagiello. ‘I know it well. I believe… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is… — 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
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
“Hamlet: “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.” — Robert A. Caro 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
I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think… — Brian d'Arcy James Copy Share Image
