Actors Quote by Martin Freeman

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh…

— Oscar Wilde

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in…

— Michael Mann

It doesn't matter if you're big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope…

— Ted Cassidy

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

— Milo Ventimiglia

I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing…

— Agnes Moorehead

Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.

— Martin Landau

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

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

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

— Sarah Lancashire

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

— William Monahan

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

— Matt Lucas

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett