Appearance Quote by Sarah Bernhardt

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared,…

— Cate Blanchett

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

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

Hamlet is a little daunting.

— Kyle MacLachlan

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

— Martin Landau

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

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

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

— Robert Wilson

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

— Ben Kingsley

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