"Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace."

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and…"

"As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, …"

"I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start at wagging of a s…"

"A beggarly account of empty boxes."

"And, like a strutting player, whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue…"

"Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract …"

"Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his ow…"

"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do. Had he the motive and the cue f…"

"I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play, Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the s…"