"I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent."

“Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.”

Source : "From musical to memoir, actor Anthony Rapp comes up with dramatic making-of 'Rent' story and moving personal one" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2006.

“There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.”

“There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (1991). “Outlander”, New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada

“Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.”

“The more passions you have the happier you'll be”

“When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.”

“I've bashed my body for 30 years and I've just got to eat properly and not drink too much - very difficult!”

Source : "Special K diet for Woosie" by Neil McLeman, www.mirror.co.uk. July 6, 2007.

“I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.”