Hamlet Quotes
155 quotes by 126 authors
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
— Edward Bond
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
— Kenneth Branagh
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
— Kenneth Branagh
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast…
— Frederick Marryat
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and…
— J. B. Priestley
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out…
— Peter Kreeft
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
— William Shakespeare
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This is a good look. I'm gonna mess him up," Pattinson praises Stewart. "And I'm just like, I don't know what's going on? Where am…
— Robert Pattinson
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In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the…
— Thomas Huxley
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly…
— Northrop Frye
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I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
— Danny Kaye
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Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say…
— Jerry Stiller
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I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was…
— Julie Christie
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When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.
— Denholm Elliott
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Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.
— David Carradine
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of…
— Sam J. Jones
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Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
— Hari Kunzru
Who Wrote These Hamlet Quotes
126 authors contributed a total of 155 Hamlet Quotes, led by these top contributors: