David Denman Quotes

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

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

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

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.

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.

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

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

'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.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

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

I'd love to play Hamlet.

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

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

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

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

I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

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

'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.

Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.