Christian Camargo Quotes

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

Christian Camargo

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• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Say
  • Prince

• Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Inspired
  • Hamlet
  • Captain

• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Want
  • Poetry

• There are a lot of distractions when you're in creative industries like publishing or fashion or media, and it's a real blessing to have witnessed some of those up close at a young age. I think when you get past the glamour, that's when you get to the good stuff - the stuff that really feeds your soul and enriches you as a person.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  

  Ovid
  • Health
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • She
  • Sea

• With me and Kurt, it was either Bonnie and Clyde, Sid and Nancy, or mommy. That's where it got at the end, but the rest of the time it was equal. The equality was based on Bonnie and Clyde, which is fucking goddamn fun. And Romeo and Juliet. But it was also Hamlet and Hamlet. Not Hamlet and Ophelia. These two fucking Hamlets sitting around.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Rest

• Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.

  

  David Hewson
  • River
  • Hamlet

• Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• Hamlet is a little daunting.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Hamlet

• I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

  

  James Black
  • Family
  • Hamlet

• 'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.

  

  David Farr
  • Alien
  • Hamlet

• 'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

  

  David Farr
  • Hamlet

• If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

  

  Matt Lucas
  • Hamlet

• I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
  • Done
  • Hamlet

• As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Family
  • Past

• The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Hurt

• We fall forward to succeed.

  

  Mary Kay Ash
  • Fall

• This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Work
  • Job
  • Game

• All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'

  

  Jennifer Armentrout
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

  

  Christian Camargo
  • Hamlet