Audience Quote by James Dean

I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations.

— Josh Widdicombe

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

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

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

— Orson Welles

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…

— Jerry Stiller

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

— Jack Lemmon

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

— William Monahan

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

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

— Stephen Lang

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

— William T. Wiley

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

— Zach Braff

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

— Aaron Yoo