Life Quote by John Barth

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

If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not…

— Orlando Bloom

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

“Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while,…

— Lisa Mantchev

I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat…

— Geoffrey Rush

“Hamlet: “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”

— Robert A. Caro

“It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy.”

— Alain de Botton

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

— Jonathan Pryce

“...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.”

— Hector Berlioz

“God is not an actor within the larger scheme of things. He is not a muscle-bound Jupiter, bullying the littler ones. He is the…

— Douglas Wilson

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

— William Shakespeare