"To be... or not to be... that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to... suffer the slings and arrows of... outrageous fortune... or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing... end them."

"Hera Gibson - the actor who plays Francisco in Hamlet"

"James Skinner - Gilbert Shakespeare"

"Matthew Tennyson - the actor who plays Gertrude in Hamlet"

"Justine Mitchell - Joan Hathaway"

"Your mother's trying to... keep a grip on her child. It won't work. What is given may be taken away at any time. We must never let our guard down. Never take for granted... that our children's hearts beat, that they draw breath, that they walk and speak and... smile, argue, play. Never forget for a moment that they may be gone."

"Emily Watson - Mary Shakespeare"

"Joe Alwyn - Bartholomew Hathaway"

"Jack Shalloo - the actor who plays Marcellus in Hamlet"

"Jacobi Jupe - Hamnet Shakespeare"

"Freya Hannan-Mills - Eliza Shakespeare"

"Louisa Harland - Rowan Hathaway"

"Shaun Mason - the actor who plays Claudius in Hamlet"

"Sam Woolf - the actor who plays Bernardo in Hamlet"

"Javier Marzan - the actor who plays The Fool in Hamlet"

"Dainton Anderson - Edmond Shakespeare"

"Jessie Buckley - Agnes Shakespeare"

"Elliot Baxter - Richard Shakespeare"

"Paul Mescal - William Shakespeare"

"Raphael Goold - the actor who plays Horatio in Hamlet"

"He loves me for what I am, not what I ought to be."

"Olivia Lynes - Judith Shakespeare"

"He's got more inside of him than any man I've ever met."

"Clay Milner Russell - the actor who plays Laertes in Hamlet"

"El Simons - the actor who plays Ophelia in Hamlet"

"William H. Macy - Arn Peeples"

"Kerry Condon - Claire Thompson"

"Will Patton - the narrator"

"Joel Edgerton - Robert Grainier"

"The world needs a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit."

"Felicity Jones - Gladys Olding Grainier"

"Nathaniel Arcand - Ignatius Jack"

"That's where all those myths come from, you know? All those flood stories. All those different religions all over the world. It's just the same story, different slants."

"You just go through what you go through."

"Not too many folks I cross paths with more than once in this life. I see it is a blessing when they're brought back around."

"A tree was a friend if you let it alone. But the second the blade bit in, you had yourself a war and the tree was a killer."

"In the forest, every least thing's important. It's all threaded together. So you can't tell where one thing ends and another begins. If you really look at it, the little insects you can't even see, they play a role as vital as the river. The dead tree is as important as the living one. There must be something for us to learn from that."

"John Diehl - Billy"

"The world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we will not know how it affects the design of things."

"Branden Lindsay - Elijah Brown"

"John Patrick Lowrie - Mr. Sears"

"We're but children on this earth pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel, thinking ourselves to be gods."

"Johnny Arnoux - Kootenai Indian"

"w:Alfred Hsing - Fu Sheng"

"Newness of the experience."

"Chuck Tucker - Silent Man"

"When Robert Grainier died in his sleep sometime in November of 1968, his life ended as quietly as it had begun. He'd never purchased a firearm or spoken into a telephone. He had no idea who his parents might have been, and he left no heirs behind him. But on that spring day, as he misplaced all sense of up and down, he felt, at last, connected to it all."