“I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.”

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

“I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?”

“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.”

“I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.”