Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.