He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.