"My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,"

“Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.”

“I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.”

Source : "J. Craig Venter sees change from genomics". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

“The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.”

“For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press

“We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.”

“I lack confidence as an actor.”

Source : "Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89" by Robert Berkvist, www.nytimes.com. December 25, 2012.

“When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.”

“Ive been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.”