“ This isn't Hamlet, you know, It's not meant to go into the bloody ear. ”
- Lawrence Olivier- Copy
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“ Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
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“ Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? ”
- Jean Genet- Copy
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“ I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. ”
- Ian Mckellen- Copy
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“ Shakespeare's Hamlet can be performed in 50,000 different ways. It is the character who lends a special touch to the role. ”
- Amrish Puri- Copy
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“ I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him… But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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