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    Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

    Hamlet


    I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

    Classics | Chekhov | Hamlet


    'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

    Grief | Whose | Hamlet


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

    Worrying | Hamlet | Played


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

    Captain | Inspired | Hamlet


    Hamlet is a little daunting.

    Daunting | Hamlet


    Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

    Next | Hamlet | Macbeth


    'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

    Role | Involved | Hamlet


    And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

    Unknown | Introduce | Hamlet


    We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

    Time | Hamlet | Humans


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

    Skull | Holding | Hamlet


    I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

    Love | Hamlet | Henry


    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.

    Cool | Hamlet | Juliet


    You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

    Language | Learn | Hamlet


    I'm as happy doing 'Postman Pat' as I am doing 'Hamlet.'

    Happy | Postman | Hamlet


    'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

    Great | Born | Hamlet


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

    Funny | Hamlet | Aspired


    I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

    Theaters | Hamlet | Classical


    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.

    Hamlet | Shot | Terrifying


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

    Test | Audience | Hamlet


       

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