“Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.” — Dakin Matthews Quote

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

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

I'm here in Hollywood to do film and television and make enough money to get my kids through college.

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

Someday, I expect to see a television version of 'Hamlet' and see Hamlet come on during the intermission and hold up his sword and say 'This is made of the same fine steel as such-and-such razor blades.'

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.