"Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?"

“The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.”

“The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.”

“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”

Source : Steven Spielberg, Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm (2000). “Steven Spielberg: Interviews”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.”

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”

“There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.”

“Im going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.”

“Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.”

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.