"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."

“It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.”

Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

“My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.”

Source : Source: www.aboutfilm.com

“I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.”

“There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.”

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

“Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.”

“If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.”

“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.”

Source : John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”

“I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.”