Jonathan Pryce Quotes

'Hamlet' is the most famous play in the world for a reason. The journey you go on is incredible.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.

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

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.

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

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.'"

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

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.

I think 'Macbeth' was a play that I've always gotten so much out of. My wife played Lady Macbeth in a play, and I designed it. There are things in there that are just kind of extraordinary.

My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

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

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

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.