Hamlet Quotes

155 quotes by 126 authors

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? — Brendan Fraser
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. — Martin Freeman
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? — Jean Genet
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear… — Stephen Colbert
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and,… — Alan Cumming
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid… — Alan Cumming
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. — Ben Kingsley
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. — Damian Lewis
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you. — Matthew Macfadyen
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom. — Henning Mankell
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 never going to… — Ian Mckellen
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly. — Meghan O'Rourke
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke
Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But… — Liev Schreiber
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet… — Tom Shales
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a… — Michael Sheen
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. — Orson Welles
It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a… — Robert Winston

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