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We have to remember that one of Hamlet's biggest problems is that he is far more given to thinking than to actually doing something. As the great aviator Amelia Earhart said:

"The most effective way to do something is to actually do it."

Well, our sweet Prince Hamlet can't quite get himslf to do it... at least without a forceful and very belated push. No, his "To be or not to be" soliloquy is nothing more than a philoshophical excercise. In the Sir Laurence Olivier movie of Hamlet, the blond prince is seen on a precipice overlooking a roiling  sea, and he has a dagger in his hand as he plays out his dialectal mental calculations. This is mere Hollywwod dramatizing. He's not really thinking of using that dagger on himself. He's doing what he does best: play acting.