Top 1200 Hamlet Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations.

Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters?

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

'Hamlet' is the most famous play in the world for a reason. The journey you go on is incredible.

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

I ask myself more questions than Hamlet as I ponder which shoes to wear

'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy.

Hamlet got a gun now.

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

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'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

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

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

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.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a school play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!"

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

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

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.

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

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

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

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

To each our own Hamlet.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.