Paul Scofield Quotes

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

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

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

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.

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

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

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

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 like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

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

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

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

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

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 saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

I wish I'd played Coriolanus.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

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.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.