"If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it."

“I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.”

“To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!”

“In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”

“When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.”

“I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.”

“If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.”

Source : "Not strictly commercial". Interview with Mary McNamara, articles.latimes.com. July 23, 2006.