Hamlet Quotes

155 Hamlet quotes by 125 unique authors

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining. — Emile Hirsch
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't… — Paul Scofield
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. — Walter Scott
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. — William Shakespeare
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. — Jack Lemmon
Hamlet is a little daunting. — Kyle MacLachlan
The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable… — Graham Nelson
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the… — Trevor Nunn
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the… — Julie Taymor
If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress! — Matt Lucas
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry… — Samuel West
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have… — Nathalie Sarraute
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' or 'is it… — Joel Edgerton
Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be… — Jamie Campbell Bower
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then,… — Derek Jacobi
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. — Harvey Korman
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
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet. — Jones Very
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo. — Aaron Yoo
On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera… — Robert Brustein
Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy. — Joss Whedon
What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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