Actors Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Crazy Has beens Theatre Wonder
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 Copy Share Image
Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, it's impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. I mean, he's just so great. Over the course… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
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… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you. — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it. — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns. — David Farr Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws… There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.… — Monica Potter Copy Share
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image