Shakespeare Hamlet Revenge Quotes & Sayings

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration. — John Schlesinger

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,
Drink off this potion! — William Shakespeare

By wrenching this increasingly outdated revenge play into the present, Shakespeare forced his contemporaries to experience what he felt and what his play registers so profoundly: the world had changed. Old certainties were gone, even if new ones had not yet taken hold. The most convincing way of showing this was to ask playgoers to keep both plays in mind at once, to experience a new Hamlet while memories of the old one, ghostlike, still lingered. Audiences at the Globe soon found themselves, like Hamlet, straddling worlds and struggling to reconcile past and present. — James Shapiro

He fell ass over tea Kettle — C.E. Murphy

Wonder , or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment. — Honore De Balzac

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with. — Joel Edgerton