Top 1200 Hamlet Theme Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

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

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

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

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.'

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

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

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

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

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.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

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

Ever since I was a child, I always had insecurity or suspicions about my own personal identity. That's why I started going to a lot of movie theaters, because I felt more comfortable there than at school. Now, the search for a personal identity is becoming a common topic for young Japanese people, and it's a big theme in their own lives. But it's been a theme in my life, as well, ever since I was young.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

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!

'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

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't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

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

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

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

I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go.

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

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

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