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“Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.”
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
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“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”
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“Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.”
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“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”
Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.”
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“The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.”
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“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”