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“I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.”
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“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”
Source : Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 04, 2005. 
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“One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.”
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“Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.”
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“Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray.”
Source : "Community Mourns the Death of Martin de Maat" by Lisa Lewis, March 2, 2001.
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“Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.”
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“I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.”
Source : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”
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“If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.”
