Top 361 Hamlet Ophelia Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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!

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

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

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

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

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

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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

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

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Every time has its own 'Hamlet.'

Hamlet got a gun now.

To each our own Hamlet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'd love to play Hamlet.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

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

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

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