Hamlet Quotes

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

You haven't made a decision on how dense you want the hamlets. That's the first step. - Nan Stoltzenburg

You have to learn the language of Hamlet. - Edward Bond

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. - Derek Jacobi

You are paying three or four times what you borrowed. I use the term indentured slaves. You become indentured to them because they never get paid off. - Bruce Hamlett

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

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, ''Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'' - Martin Luther King Jr.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? - Brendan Fraser

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. - Emile Hirsch