"We’ve just gotten all really crafty. I got into making soaps, my son made a dress, my daughter made a skirt. We’re baking. We’re Harry Potter addicts so we’re building lego things. We’re just doing whatever we can to stay creative and stay busy."

"I’ve never seen a television show that was going to cover this kind of thing and it was this scary, exciting time of exploration and battle."

"In the early 1980s, fresh out of college with a major in theater, my plan was to work odd jobs and audition in Washington."

"As for being a single mom, there’s a lot to be said about being single. It’s really wonderful. I do have a hard time making time for other people because I’m lucky that I love my work and also love going home and making jam with my kids."

"Alzheimer’s is a thief, a cowardly thief because it sneaks in and steals your mind. With my mother, it was literally a realization that it could happen to anybody. She was the poster child of what to do not to get Alzheimer’s. She never drank, never smoked, ate well, exercised, was mentally active."

"I want my audience to relate to the moments when we’re not the hero — when we think we’re cowards. I think that’s what audiences relate about in me. I’m the toughest person on myself ever."

"Being aware of what the signs are and courageously choosing to get a diagnosis can either bring you relief you don't have it or it can give you opportunity and the gift of time."

"That’s where the blur occurs, and it’s a wonderful blur, being an actor. A scene in the lounge, a scene in the hallway, a scene where you’re just talking is always a really great place to go to. It’s like the ribbon after running a race."

"If someone doesn’t hand it to you, you start barking order like you’re a real doctor. It’s good because you get in the moment, but if you think about it, the pressure to do a good job no matter what your job is is enormous. Pressure is pressure, and it increases when it’s pressure to make sure someone doesn’t die."

"Usually the actor learns them during the day. But as an actress, I have never had a sigh of consternation when I get something complicated. You know how it is when you feel used in a good way."

"It was really a good way to audition, because it’s more of what I think the experience of auditioning should be, which is more exploratory, not a presentation. You’re in the room with the director, so you may as well work, and he may as well direct you. That’s what we did."

"I would like to dedicate this prize to the Congolese people who have suffered since 1994 from repeated attacks by neighboring countries, mainly Rwanda. (,,,) I also dedicate this prize, to the Congolese, who from Bukavu to Kinshasa, welcomed me, housed, fed and looked after me without knowing me, thus showing humanity despite the precarious situation in which the war had rushed. I dedicate this prize to the friends, Belgians, Congolese, Germans, Dutch who helped me to get out of the Congo and to arrive safe and sound in Belgium."

"the genocide happened while she was abroad and that the pain of losing her relatives, in Nyanza district, compelled her to write the book-which became a source of internal healing."

"The paintings express aspects of genocide like betrayal of relatives, negligence of the church and community leaders, and issues related to the horrors which visited the local people."

"Mama, I wasn’t there to cover your body and all I have left is words… over and over, my sentences weave a shroud for your missing body."

"Generalisations only favour the killers."

"The genocide can not be interpreted as a humanitarian drama. This would mean refusing to analyse the way a genocide can be carried out."

"To fight against the ideology and denial of genocide is to fight against hate."

"The genocide perpetrated against Tutsi is the history of Rwandans, it is the history of humanity."

"We must know that our differences do not make us enemies, but enriches us."

"As keepers of memory, we cannot accept the distortion of Rwanda’s history which include the genocide."

"There will be no humanity without forgiveness, there will be no forgiveness without justice, and there will be no justice without humanity."

"The ideology and denial of the genocide perpetrated against Tutsi are still topical, especially in journalistic and academic sectors influenced by genocide perpetrators and their friends."

"We were condemned to live."

"Why do I need to reconcile with the killer of my husband? I'm just glad to have a government that creates rule of law so we can live together peacefully."

"I was not born to live. I died at birth. The small grave was already dug. Everybody was ready for my funeral. Only my mother clung to the crumpled little corpse, refusing to let it be buried."

"Every morning, I put one foot in front of the other and I don't know if I am moving forward or backward."

"Because I am not dead, I must live. Upon waking up, I find that I am as distraught as I was the night before."

"I do not know if my reaction comes from pride or if it's a survival instinct. I know only this; that to be fully alive rather than to survive, is a way of punishing them. It's the only revenge possible to me."

"If it could have happened, it can happen again."

"People mistake us talking about this to be out of hatred but that's not the case. It is because we want people to know how it happened. So if people know how this comes about, then it would be easy to stop such actions."

"The more we keep silent, the more history repeats itself."

"Many of us have lost close friends. And we have asked ourselves: Why have we not seen the obvious? Why have we as church institutions not been able to push the international community to stop the killings?"

"We had been feeling the tension increase for a long time."

"Too often, it is preceded by repeated warning signs that fail to receive a strong and early international response."

"I truly have hope because there are a lot of young people here. I challenge you all to make a difference, it’s in your hands."

"I want to be nice and forgive, but I can’t because you failed us once, and now you are failing the survivors."

"What is the point of coming here if I’m going to be politically correct – I’m not a politician – the truth needs to be heard."

"Most of the survivors we have today were broken in their bodies and their souls."

"It was surrealistic. I was really thinking, 'Are we dreaming?' They deny everything, they deny everything."

"So we learned to deal with it very early in a way that doesn't stop you living."

"What is forgiveness? Forgive who? Who has asked me for forgiveness?"

"It is possible to become the man or the woman you used to be again, to become alive again."

"You can take your unfortunate history and use it to grow, to be even better."

"When you are constantly thinking you will be deported tomorrow, you cannot integrate, you cannot learn the language, you cannot start to live again."

"From the worst, most terrible experience of the genocide against Tutsi in 1994, we managed to make something good, something beautiful."

"Alone, you are just by yourself, but together you can be strong again."

"The women still have a strong sense of purpose, which makes it easier for them to start their lives here."

"Even though they have lost everything, they still keep their role as a mother, as the caretaker of the household."

"From her birth on a Rwandan hill to her current life in Germany. She tries to recount the appalling wound of the genocide in order to overcome the terrible guilty feeling about: "Why did I survive?"