"You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying……" — Matthew Macfadyen
"You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you."
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35 Quotes by Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen has 35 quotes on this site.
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No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have…
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I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then…
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Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
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I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
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I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if…
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I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the…
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It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
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It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.'…
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My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
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Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find…
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Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and…
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As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted…
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More Hamlet Quotes
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
— Edward Bond
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
— Kenneth Branagh
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker…
— Kenneth Branagh
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every…
— Frederick Marryat
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that…
— J. B. Priestley
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of…
— Peter Kreeft
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Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone?…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble…
— William Shakespeare
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This is a good look. I'm gonna mess him up," Pattinson praises Stewart. "And I'm just like, I don't know…
— Robert Pattinson
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In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom.…
— Thomas Huxley
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