Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

I would love to play Richard III.

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

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.'

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

I saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

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

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.