Hamlet Quotes · Page 6

I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can…

— Sam Rockwell

I think Hamlet, as much as he loves his privacy and is kind of an introvert, he's a very functional introvert. When…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

As Hamlet tells his friend, ''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well…

— Gregory Chaitin

No one ever asked me to play Hamlet. I don't think I'm right for the part, but it would have been nice…

— Al Pacino

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

— Jean Genet

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

— Ken Robinson

“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

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the…

— Liev Schreiber

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your…

— Derek Jacobi

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

— Winston Duke

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

“O good Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me! If thou didst ever hold me in…

— Shakespeare

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you…

— Maureen Johnson

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I…

— John Logan

“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

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

— Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a…

— Ken Ludwig

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

“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

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts... There’s fennel for you, and columbines; there’s…

— William Shakespeare

“In life,” he said, “there are no essentially major or minor characters. To that extent, all fiction and biography, and most historiography,…

— John Barth

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

— Robert Morse

“At what point did you begin to adapt well in prison?” “Actually, it was after I read Shakespeare’s Hamlet.”

— Timothy M. Burke

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.

— Martin Landau

“She’s so conjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but…

— William Shakespeare

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

— Christian Camargo

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe…

— Stephen Lang

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

— Orson Welles

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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 have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

— Liam Neeson

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

— Eloisa James

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

— John Evelyn

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

— Shari Sebbens

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

— Jones Very