Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.