Kenneth Branagh Quote: 'I don't think Hamlet is mad, ...' @FEELquotes

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.

Shamir

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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Florence King

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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

Piet Mondrian

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In 1600, when Shakespeare's audience at the Globe heard 'Hamlet' for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

Neil MacGregor

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I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Tom DeLonge

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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Friedrich Schiller

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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

Nathalie Sarraute

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The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

Greg Kinnear

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Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.

John Ritter

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I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.

Peter O'Toole

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I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

Paula Abdul

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

George Herbert

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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.

Dallas Roberts

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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Charles Stuart Calverley

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Hamlet is a little daunting.

Kyle MacLachlan

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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan

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I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Kris Kristofferson

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