“I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury spac...” — Geoffrey Rush Quote

“I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.”

“Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.'”

“I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.”

“Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.”

“Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.”

“Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.”