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Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.
I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.
'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
I'm as happy doing 'Postman Pat' as I am doing 'Hamlet.'
Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?
The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.
I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.
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 be involved in.
I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.
We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.
Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.
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, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.
I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
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 he does, because that's the craft.
In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.
I grew up doing regional Shakespeare, and when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, there's something about that that you don't really do in film anymore.
The great thing about Satan is it's kind of like Hamlet. Everyone puts their own signature on it in a way, whether it's Al Pacino or little old me.
But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
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 to be.'"
'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 be involved in.
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.
I am not one of those people who like to play. I don't. I'm neither coy, nor do I, in any way, want to ask anyone to put up with somebody playing Hamlet.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
It makes you a better person to know where you came from, because whereever you go, there is somebody in some town, city, hamlet, whatever, that has the same dreams you have.
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.
I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity
I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
