"Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives."

“If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.”

“The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.”

Source : Thomas Heywood, John Addington Symonds (1888). “Thomas Heywood”

“I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.”

“The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.”

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

“It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.”

“Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.”

Source : Interview with Dawoud Bey, bombmagazine.org. July 1, 2009.

“There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.”

“I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.”

Source : "TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 26, 2010.