Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect

From Tom Stoppards movie/play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519

Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?

No.

Nor do I really. Silly to be depressed by it.
I mean, one thinks of it like being alive in a box, and one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead... which should make all the difference... shouldn't it?
I mean, you'd never know you were in a box, would you?
It would be just like you were asleep in a box.
Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air. You'd wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be?
In a box. That's the bit I don't like frankly. That's why don't think of it.
Because you'd be helpless, wouldnt you?
Stuffed in a box like that. I mean, you'd be in there for ever.
Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought.
Especially if you're dead, really... ask yourself, if I asked you straight off... I'm going to stuff you in this box now, would you rather be alive or dead?
Naturally, you prefer to be alive.
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect.
You'd have a chance at least.
You could lie there thinking well, at least I'm not dead!
In a minute somebody is going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out.
Hey, you! What's yer name! Come out of there!

I think I'm going to kill you.

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[TheVoid]

Is this scene in the actual play?

[noni1914]

@TheVoid I think so. I got the text from the transcript of the play.

[mandyroxurworld]

Awww, i love these two both as actors and as chracters.

and Tim Roth *intake of breath* "I think I'm going to kill you..." I could not stop laughing, his face was so serious. XD

[AUTUMNDANCER]

"I think I'm going to kill you..." Freakin histarical!

[MatteusNova]

This makes me think of the last episode of "Misfits".

[talek77]

Hey, thanks for the lyrics of this master piece. Great movie!!!