Mark Pellegrino Quotes

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

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.'

All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

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

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.

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.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

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

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.