David Carradine Quotes

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.

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

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

I would love to play Richard III.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I'd love to play Hamlet.

It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But when it came to Hamlet, I hesitated.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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

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

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

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

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.

The great thing about Satan is it's kind of like Hamlet. Everyone puts their own signature on it in a way, whether it's Al Pacino or little old me.

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'