Annoying Quote by Dallas Roberts

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared,…

— Cate Blanchett

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

— Matthew Macfadyen

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

— Eloisa James

Hamlet is a little daunting.

— Kyle MacLachlan

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have…

— David Mamet

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

— Meghan O'Rourke

We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is, but there's…

— Norah Vincent

“Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ... And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and examines every…

— Carla Lynn Stockton

When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later,…

— Anthony Hopkins

“Hamlet’s soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare. Ah, it’s sublime, sublime! Always fetches the house. I haven’t got it in the…

— Mark Twain