Hamlet (1996)

Billy Crystal: First Gravedigger

Photos 

Quotes 

• Hamlet : Whose grave is this sir?

  First Gravedigger : Mine sir.

  [Resumes singing his ditty] 

  Hamlet : [Interrupts]  I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't.

  First Gravedigger : You lie out on't sir, and therefore it is not yours. For my part I do not lie ins't and yet it is mine.

  Hamlet : Thou dost lie in't to be in't, and say 'tis thine. 'Tis for the dead not for the quick, therefore thou liest.

  First Gravedigger : 'Tis a quick lie, sir. 'Twill away again from me to you.

• Hamlet : What man dost thou dig it for?

  First Gravedigger : For no man sir.

  Hamlet : For what woman then?

  First Gravedigger : For none neither.

  Hamlet : *Who* is to be buried here?

  First Gravedigger : One that was a woman sir, but rest her soul, she's dead.