I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

I could make a difference.

I want to be a professional.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me, " he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.

Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.

Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me