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“To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would fardels bear.”

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 21. The opening lines of the fake Duke’s crazy and humorous version of Hamlet’s soliloquy by Shakespeare, in which lines and scenes from other places are mixed up.

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

– Harvey Korman

We remake ‘Hamlet’ all the time. That’s sort of what we do, humans.

– Joel Kinnaman

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

– Ben Kingsley

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

– Damian Lewis

Hamlet is a little daunting.

– Kyle MacLachlan

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