Break Quote by Libba Bray

Hamlet is a little daunting.

— Kyle MacLachlan

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

— David Farr

“In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be…

— Michael Sheen

“There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to…

— Kenneth Branagh

“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

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

— Jean Genet

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

“In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer