"If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?"

“I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.”

“Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.”

“Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.”

“Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.”

“I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.”

Source : "No Rest for the Wicked: Edi Gathegi Talks 'Criminal Activities', 'The Blacklist' and Playing Villainous Characters". Interview with Aramide Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2015.

“Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.”

“One of my earliest memories is being backstage at Bran Nue Dae in Darwin when I was about eight. Its such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.”

“Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?”