Liev Schreiber Quotes

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Every time has its own 'Hamlet.'

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

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

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.

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

You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.