"That is my opinion, but all the same, I may be mistaken."
"But have you really no respect for your art?"
"For mine? Why should I have more respect for my art than for anybody else's?"
"And yet you've played the greatest parts! You've played Shakespeare! You've played Hamlet! Have you never been touched in your inmost soul when speaking that tremendous monologue: To be or not to be...."
"What do you mean by tremendous?"
"Full of profound thought."
"Do explain yourself! Is it so full of profound thought to say: Shall I take my life or not? I should do so if I knew what comes hereafter, and everybody else would do the same thing; but as we don't know, we don't take our lives. Is that so very profound?"
"Not if expressed in those words."
"There you are! You've surely contemplated suicide at one time or another? Haven't you?"
"Yes; I suppose most people have."