We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.