There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great. — David Carradine Copy Share Image
“I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible… — Rhiannon McGavin Copy Share Image
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us. — David Farr Copy Share Image
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
“Alone in my chamber, I fairly trembled with excitement. How could it be that I, who had never been kissed before, had… — Lisa M. Klein Copy Share Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
“Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a… — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and… — Gary D. Schmidt 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
“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“She always felt that she knew everything about him that could be known - not that he was simple, but that he… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. — Aaron Yoo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet” — Lili St. Germain Copy Share Image
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet. — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them.… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance?… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I saw Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet at the Old Vic and straight away had a very strong sense that he might be… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I am by turns a petulant adolescent and a mature man, a melancholy loner and a wit telling actors their trade. I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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