"I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with."

"We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect."

"You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it."

"Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing."

"And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case."

"Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?"

"You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen."

"I swear to the Lord  I still can't see Why Democracy means  Everybody but me."