After being pelted by a week of ceaseless rain, my active mind had shut down and, at the risk of sounding overly—who cares? It’s true. Somehow my heart and soul had opened up. I saw my future. I saw it so vividly it was as if I’d had a conversation with my older self. At that precise moment, I conjured a credo that would guide me fır the rest of my life: I will pursue something that I love—and hopefully become good at it, instead of pursuing something that I’m good at—but don’t love.
I knew at that moment, lying inside a sleeping bag in a pup tent under a shelter on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia: I was going to become an actor.
Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.
Yabancı bir devletin himaye ve yardımını kabul etmek insanlık vasıflarından mahrumiyeti, âcizlik ve beceriksizliği itiraftan başka bir şey değildir. Gerçekten bu hâllere düşmemiş olanların isteyerek başlarına bir yabancı efendi getirmelerine asla ihtimal verilemez.
Hâlbuki Türk'ün haysiyet, şeref ve kabiliyeti çok yüksek ve büyüktür. Böyle bir millet, esir yaşamaktansa mahvolsun, daha iyi!
Binaenaleyh, ya istiklal ya ölüm!