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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
Mark Rylance
Alone
Bible
Books
About
More
Written
Hamlet
Been
Than
Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.
Martin Landau
Young
Every
Something
Because
Hamlet
West
End
Young Actor
Wants
Actor
Why
Bring
If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!
Matt Lucas
Dress
Hamlet
Ever
Play
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
Matthew Macfadyen
You
Before
Worrying
About
Never
Hamlet
Play
Played
Started
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
Orlando Bloom
You
Everyone
Say
Says
About
He
Prince
Hamlet
Were
To Be Or Not To Be
Might
Ask
The lowest period was when I was with Tottenham, and they loaned me out to Dulwich Hamlet.
Peter Crouch
Me
Out
Period
Hamlet
Lowest
Loaned
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.
Robert Gottlieb
Heart
Way
Dante
Russians
Poem
Shakespeare
Sacred
Instance
Know
Ballet
Hamlet
Italians
Text
Familiar
Story
Romeo
Meaning
Us
Whole
Filled
Whom
What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.
Rod Lurie
Walk
President
Our
Kind
Rite
Around
Passage
Hamlet
Version
American
Want
Actor
Among
Playing
Set
I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.
Roger Rees
Eyes
Old
Mind
King
Macbeth
King Lear
Perhaps
Well
Lear
Audience
Doing
Hamlet
Want
Again
Little
Play
Rub
You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.
Roger Rees
Best
You
Generation
People
Stage
Bathroom
Out
Would
Come
House
Hamlet
Unfortunately
Might
Your
Who
Fill
I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.
Rory Kinnear
Myself
Natural
Seen
Whatever
Like
Hamlet
Quickly
Expected
Anything
Realised
Really
Ever
Play
Thing
The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not.
Ryan North
Funny
Character
School
Awesome
Funny Thing
Back
High
High School
Remembered
She
Read
Female
Female Character
Hamlet
Being
Really
Cool
Her
Thing
I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
Sam J. Jones
Saying
People
Whatever
Pay
See
He
Gordon
Himself
Hamlet
Bunch
Person
Sam
Flash
Crap
Whether
Actor
Thing
Plays
Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.
Samuel West
Angry
Nature
Revenge
Debate
Feelings
About
Morality
Something
Course
Hamlet
Whether
Your
Right
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Sarah Bernhardt
King
Suitable
Too
Exaggerate
Prone
King Lear
More
He
Powers
Lear
Hamlet
His
Wants
Appearance
Actor
Play
You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.
Sarah Hall
Birthday
You
Yourself
Three
Parents
Closed
Think
Back
Wildlife
Would
Only
Small
Park
House
Parties
Became
Because
Go
Hamlet
Wolves
Up
Very
Interested
Little
Ask
Miles
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Why
Near
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on 'Hamlet' and caused quite a lot of trouble!
Seanan McGuire
Me
Book
Trouble
Kids
Would
Kindergarten
See
Strongly
Shakespeare
Wrong
She
Caused
Hamlet
Aunt
Lot
Handed
Report
Did
Quite
Quite A Lot
Happen
Happened
Hard
Teaching
Who
Believed
I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.
Shari Sebbens
Day
Othello
Indigenous
Look
Hamlet
Just
Forward
Actor
Play
My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.
Stephen Lang
You
Lonely
Tough
Think
Valid
Alienated
Mine
Bitter
About
Missing
Prince
Hamlet
Get
Maybe
Romance
Root
I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.
Thomas Gibson
Me
Be Nice
Nice
Would
Would-Be
Find
Some
Still
Hamlet
Want
Place
Far
Helps
Away
Play
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Trevor Nunn
Myself
Saved
Shakespeare
Had
Most
Hamlet
Off
Up
Wanted
Theater
Production
Fully
Professional
Stratford
Thing
Bring
Royal
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.
Brian d'Arcy James
You
Big
Think
I Think
Would
Would-Be
Give
Shakespeare
Know
Terrifying
Always
Hamlet
Big One
Done
Wanted
Shot
Professionally
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'Rourke
Best
Grief
Rather
Merely
Read
Because
Hamlet
Than
Describing
Description
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