“All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”

“What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.”

“You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.”

“Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?”

“Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negati...”

“The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.”

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”