Acting Quote by Jonathan Pryce

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

One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast, but I…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

— Liam Neeson

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

No one ever asked me to play Hamlet. I don't think I'm right for the part, but it would have been nice to be…

— Al Pacino

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

The first play that I was ever a part of was 'Hamlet.'

— Kunal Kapoor

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But…

— Samuel Barnett

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

— Patrick Stewart

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to…

— Stephen Colbert

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at…

— Trevor Nunn

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub…

— Roger Rees