'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns. — David Farr 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
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 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
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 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
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
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great,… — Paul Scofield 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
“Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“also by the same author ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND ENTER A FREE MAN AFTER MAGRITTE JUMPERS TRAVESTIES… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
“Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ... And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and… — Carla Lynn Stockton Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody,… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“For us and for our tragedy, Here stooping to your clemency, We beg your hearing patiently. HAMLET: Is this a prologue or… — William Shakespeare 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
“But I have that within which passes show. these but the trappings and the suits of woe” — William Shakespeare 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
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“He looked at me the way you’d look at a poodle that suddenly started reciting Hamlet.” — Serra Elinsen Copy Share Image
We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
I am not one of those people who like to play. I don't. I'm neither coy, nor do I, in any way,… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
“Our son shall win. QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes:… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, What is't but to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
