When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

I really felt that I had to stay level, I had to control, I had to know what I was eating, I had to know what I was doing, I had to work out. All that stuff is very powerful and it really helps, but now I don't do it out of survival. At first, I was just trying to survive. I assumed at some point I'd be screwed otherwise.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.