“Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.”

“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.”

“I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.”

“I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.”

“The only greatness for man is immortality.”

“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.”

“He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.”

“When I was at home I was in a better place”

“O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.”

“Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.”

“Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.”

“My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.”

“For mine own part, it was Greek to me.”

“What the hell is wrong with him now?”

“The soul of this man is his clothes.”

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

“If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain”

“Better be with the dead,Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,Than on the torture of the mind to lieIn restless ecstasy.”

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

“Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!”

“Past all shame, so past all truth.”