(14 quotes found)
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; / Am an attendant lord.”
T.S. Eliot
“I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.”
Julia Stiles
“Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type "Hamlet"? What's wrong with "Macbeth"? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?”
Tom Knapp
“is that it is like Hamlet. If you thought about who had played it before, you'd never play Hamlet again.”
Colin Firth
“He never aspired to be Hamlet,”
Tim Brooks
“Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.”
Liev Schreiber
“We can only speculate how she eventually died. Was everyone from the hamlet there? Was there a priest there? We don't know.”
Jaap Brakke
“The real 'Hamlet' is of course later, first performed in 1600, then performed with revisions in 1601, and eventually included in the First Folio after Shakespeare's death, ... It really has more in common with the two major works it comes between, the two great comedies 'As You Like It' and 'Twelfth Night'.”
Harold Bloom
“Nobody has ever seen the 'Ur-Hamlet,' ”
“This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets have since murdered Shakespeare”
Robert Morse
