"breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die."

“I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening to cadences of voices and tonality and this sort of thing.”

“I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Dishes on Gossip Girl". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. October 20, 2010.

“We were on As the World Turns together with Trevor Vaughn. We played brothers on the show. Our friendship started there. We would punch each other in the face, in the nuts, while we were acting. Our characters are supposed to hate each other, but we actually got along really, really well.”

“I believe education is the great equalizer.”

“Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.”

“Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.”

“I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?”

“I prefer writing originals.”

Source : "Talking With Tony Gilroy". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.